Radical Quotes

• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thought Provoking, Advice, Radicalism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

  John Green

  Believe, Writing, Fire

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• Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mistake, Heart, Reason

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

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• Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

  Brad Blanton

  Honesty, Alternatives, Waste

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• I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, Thinking, Way

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• Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Roots, Radical Islam

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.14, Vintage

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• I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, Two, Political

  Letter to Burke Aaron Hinsdale on January 01, 1867. "The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield". Book by Jonas Mills Bundy, p. 77, 1880.

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• We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

  David Platt

  Giving, Looks, Demand

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• We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

  Lou Brock

  Sports, Cheating, Moving

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• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

  Mark Twain

  Radicalism, Next, Conservative

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.393, Courier Corporation

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• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

  Mark Twain

  Views, Politics, Next

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Feet

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reality, Trying

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• The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Quilts, Humor

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• There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.34, Rutgers University Press

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• While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

  David Platt

  Dream, Goal, American Dream

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• Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Life, Spiritual, Morning

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• We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

  David Platt

  Retirement, Taken, Eye

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• The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Loneliness, Taken

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.70, The New Press

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• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Evil, Hypocrisy

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Doe, Radicalism

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."

  David Platt

  Audacity, Looks, Faces

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• So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

  David Platt

  Challenges, Way, Desperate

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