True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There cannot be such thing as a hate crime against radicalism. Because radicalism itself is a hate crime. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The George W. Bush universe of threats is a constantly expanding universe as he moves to politically higher ground, escaping from failure… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with… — Richard T. Ely Copy Share Image
America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves,… — Brian Awehali Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“How did we get here? How does a group of people synonymous with Middle Britain and Middle America—the heart, soul, and backbone… — Justin Gest Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
“More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
“Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.” — Christopher Hill Copy Share Image
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated… — Powell Clayton Copy Share Image
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically… — H. Richard Niebuhr Copy Share Image
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The belief that men and women are different, the decision to date a Christian girl, and the audacity to disagree with one's… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
