Drastic Quotes

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of… — John Updike
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. — Eric Hoffer
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new… — Douglas MacArthur
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in… — Eric Hoffer
Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction. — Richard Neustadt
If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary… — Mary Daly
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a… — Virginia Woolf
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so… — Frederick Seitz
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe.... — Frederick Seitz
During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of… — Henry A. Wallace
A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82. — Ronald Reagan
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self... — Robin Morgan
I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic. — Elisha Cuthbert
When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the… — Joan Van Ark
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of… — Rem Koolhaas
An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic… — David Foreman
Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted… — Margaret Sanger
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments,… — Jerzy Grotowski
We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the… — Malcolm X

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