Radicalism Quotes
Radicalism Quote of the day
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.
Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.
Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.
After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.
Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.
The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.
Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.
Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.
One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.
You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.
With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.
The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.
