RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. — Ambrose Bierce 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
“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.” — Joy Davidman 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
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
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
“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
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
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
There cannot be such thing as a hate crime against radicalism. Because radicalism itself is a hate crime. — Ilkin Santak 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
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I do agree that in particular, Turkey and the Gulf nations have got to make up their minds. Are they going to… — Hillary Clinton 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
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
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
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
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 realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Extremism frequently turns its champions into angry people, driven by conflicting desires. At first, I pitied my less enlightened parents and siblings.… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“Hvis du tar til orde for at Europa en gang skal bli fritt for muslimer, tar du samtidig til orde, i beste… — Anonymous 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 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
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image