“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.” — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
“The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.” — Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
“Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.” — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
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
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. — Eric Hoffer 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 Democrats' radicalism does not end with illegal immigration and health care. It extends into other aspects of their policy platforms. — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
“Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.” — Bryant McGill 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
“I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ revolution and a… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked… — Shane Claiborne 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
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
“4. Radicalism of forms. If a new model once created meets with much success on account of its greater efficiency than its… — Tom McDonough 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
“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
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )” — Sting Copy Share Image
The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
