Radical Quotes

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].

Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.