Radicalism Quotes

• Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

  Saul Alinsky

  Cutting, Hair, Suits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Logic, Desperation

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• The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hatred, Selfishness, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.376, Library of America

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• RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Affair, Morrow, Conservatism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

  Edward Snowden

  Levels, Danger, Extremism

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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

  Mark Twain

  Next, Conservative, Century

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

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• Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Real, America, Enemy

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• The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5207, NYU Press

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• Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

  Powell Clayton

  Ideas, Gone, Conservative

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• What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

  Greg Laurie

  Sincere, Behavior, Radical

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• Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Fighting, Russia, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Freedom, Masturbation

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• The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Facts, Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.93, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.

  Max Blumenthal

  Reality, Violence, Months

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism.

  Richard T. Ely

  Attitude, Class, Favors

  "Socialism: An Examination of Its Nature, Its Strength and Its Weakness, With Suggestions for Social Reform". Book by Richard T. Ely, 1894.

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• Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Jesus, Christ, Reformers

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.146

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Economy, Radical, Cease

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Ideas, Atheism

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.98, Transaction Publishers

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• Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Doe, Speak, Liberalism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Christian, Discovery, Perception

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• Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

  Lawrence Wright

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  Lawrence Wright (2006). “The Looming Tower”, p.107, Vintage

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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, Politics

  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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• American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Progress, Labels

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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, Conservative

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

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