Radical Quotes

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

I'm very different from other politicians.

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 enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

Within 90 days from the time Lincoln that is inaugurated, the Republican Party will be utterly ruined and destroyed. His path is environed with so many difficulties, that even if he had the ability of Jefferson and the energy of Jackson, he would fail, but he is a weak and inexperienced man, and his administration will be doomed from the commencement. If he takes that radical section of the Republican Party, the conservative wing of it will cut loose and repudiate him. If, on the other hand, he courts the conservatives and pursues a moderate conciliatory policy, the radicals will make open war upon his administration.

It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and that's why, all throughout history, those who have advocated a more hopeful view of human nature - often the anarchists - have been persecuted.

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to be dismissed as radical.

I am a radical.

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

Brazil has cast a firebrand into Europe

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

I'm a bit of an extremist.