Radical Quotes

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical!

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.