Stamp collecting Quote by Vinod Mehta

“I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old”

— Robert Frost

“It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority…

— Slavoj Žižek

“usually without giving the matter too much thought, we see ourselves as part of a civic community transcending generations.”

— Tony Judt

“Activism is acting on your values—practical activism means being smart about it.”

— Julia Turshen

“Free Radicals want to take their careers into their own hands and put the world to work for them. Free Radicals are resilient, self-reliant,…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean…

— Margaret Laurence

For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their…

— Deeyah Khan

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored;…

— Lawrence Wright

“Too often, our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they "succeeded" in realizing their visions rather than on the merits…

— Robin D.G. Kelley

“So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are…

— Will Durant

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of…

— Peter Dreier