Radical Quotes

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

Today, Play, Same

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost

Fear, Young, Old

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

True, Evil, Hypocrite

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Hillary Clinton

Words, Democracy, Often

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William James

Nor, Neither, Admit

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

Politics, Society, America

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thought, Flower, Reason

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Thomas Sowell

Political, America, Within

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
Jose Marti

Goes, Genuine, Roots

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt

Revolution, After, Become

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem

Work, Women, Home

I am a radical.
Carter G. Woodson

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker

Society, Loneliness, Sometimes

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Around, Few, Dangerous

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
Angela Davis

Means, Simply, Root

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
Woodrow Wilson

Understand, Enough, Far

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag

Failure, Wrong, Judgment

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
Stanislav Grof

Hope, Crisis, Real

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Change, Revolution, Means

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav Grof

Death, Fear, Important

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

Christian, Optimism, System

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.
Jerry Saltz

Heart, Him, Night

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
Andrea Dworkin

Men, Power, Against

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
Newt Gingrich

Truth, Islam, Serious

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
Bede Griffiths

Men, Freedom, Self

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
Anthony Kiedis

Time, Happy, Learned

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
John Cusack

Time, Process, Seen

Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).
Simon Mainwaring

Job, May, Thoughts

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Noam Chomsky

Place, Far, Ability

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