Socially Conservative
Al-Tabtabaie is socially conservative. He opposed allowing Kuwaiti women to vote or run for office—on the grounds that it would irrevocably change Kuwaiti society—and has taken socially conservative stands on several issues pertaining to speech, media, and Westernization.
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Famous quotes containing the words socially and/or conservative:
“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man’s parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”
—Cleveland Amory (b. 1917)
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)