Core characteristics of Conservatism 

The Conservatives emphasize the idea of traditions. Conservatives refers to people are what they have inherited the skills, manners, morality, and other cultural resources of their ancestors. The conservatist are pessimist view that the human beings can be morally improved through political and social changes. Conservatives tend to assume that human beings are driven by their passions and desires and are therefore naturally prone to selfishness, anarchy, irrationality, and violence. Accordingly, conservatives look to traditional political and cultural institutions to curb humans’ base and destructive instincts. Conservatism distrust of human nature, rootlessness, and untested innovations, together with a corresponding trust in unbroken historical continuity and in the traditional frameworks for conducting human affairs. Conservative influences operate indirectly, largely by virtue of the fact that there is much in the general human temperament that is naturally or instinctively conservative, such as the fear of sudden change and the tendency to act habitually. These traits may find collective expression in a resistance to imposed political change and in the entire range of convictions and preferences that contribute to the stability of a particular culture. Conservatism has often been associated with traditional and established forms of religion. In the period of Holy War, both, Christians and Muslims advocated for religious conservatism for mobilisation of societies in favour of the wars.