Political Radicalism Quotes

Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists.

The greatest danger for our people [Nazi Party members] is not to be found in Marxism but rather in our middle class parties.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

The worst enemy of the new radicals are the old liberals.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

The problem with UKIP and the extreme right - Mr. Le Pen, Wilders - they are really good at making an analysis of the problem. And they immediately go completely overboard in providing a solution that would never work and is morally completely unacceptable.

The world revolves on its axis subject to the Constitution of the United States, and the most Radical newspaper man in London

It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.

… semi-Fascists

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

The difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.

I can't admit the Duke of Bedford ever was radical; God knows! I wish everybody now was a little so!

It is no longer possible to consider the [John Birch] Society merely as moving towards legitimate goals in a misguided way.... [It] is rapidly losing whatever it had in common with patriotism or conservatism.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.

If we do not elect a national legislature that will hold Obama accountable, he and his radical cohorts will destroy the tree of liberty. Just mark my words.