Radical Thinking Quotes

There was an event called the World Transformed, which was set up by Momentum, and people from across the political spectrum have had to tip their hat to it. It's vibrant, with interesting discussions and ideas. That's why it's such an interesting political moment.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.

I believe we are nearing a time when a combination of technology and radical thinking will make it possible for much more intensive and restrictive conditions to be applied in more creative and fundamental ways outside of prison.

All great ideas are dangerous.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

To change history you have to have very simple goals.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.