Books Quote by Thomas Nixon Carver

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far…

— Woodrow Wilson

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

— Charles August Lindbergh

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 the relatives…

— E. L. Doctorow

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

— Salman Rushdie

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical…

— Roger Scruton

“By “radical” I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched…

— Matthew Stewart

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by…

— Saul Alinsky

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

— Sylvia Earle

“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that technique to…

— Russell Kirk

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

— Josh Billings

Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

— Israel Horovitz