“All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its… — David Rieff Copy Share Image
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Now I've been criticized for advocating that people push their boundaries because sometimes people get caught. Sometimes people get fired. Sometimes people… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
“All this form of planning offers is to replace our present rulers with leaders or representatives of the intellectuals who endorse its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination… — Jeffrey Rosen 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 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the… — Anthony Everitt Copy Share Image
“A more subtle misconception is that of a hypostasis of evil as indestructible reality, a kind of primal scene, a sort of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical” and “unrealistic”; any suggestion for… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“It seems to be little noticed that this yearning to dragoon and terrify all persons who happen to be lucky is at… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The characteristic feature of contemporary literary radicalism is that it rarely addresses the question of its own determination by the conditions of… — Aijaz Ahmad Copy Share Image
“Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image