Radical Quotes

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.

At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies.

I think it distinguishes television from every other medium. It's what makes it kind of radical, and risky, and fun.

It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

What we do know, despite the lack of media curiosity, is that Hillary Clinton promises a radical amnesty combined with a radical reduction in immigration enforcement.

We are going to stop radical Islamic terrorism in America. Hillary Clinton won't even mention the words, and neither will President Obama. So I just want to tell you, she wants open borders.

I will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so, too, must we take on the ideology of radical Islam.

We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.

I am going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.

People do not know what an absolute extremist left-wing radical Tim Kaine has been his entire life and they're going to do everything they can to try to mask and cover that up .

This guy [Tim Kaine] is every bit as radical as Barack Obama is. Every bit.

They [the establishment] will allow radical Islamic terrorists to enter our country by the thousands.

Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!

I'm not a communist, a socialist or a radical. But these issues have to be addressed.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

We need our radicals.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

Iran is obviously part of the problem. They sponsor Hezbollah. They encourage a radical brand of Islam.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.

I really feel strongly that we can make change for every person. And it will be radical in the person's life.

Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.

I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism.

Whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.

We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.