Best 155 quotes in «radical quotes» category

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

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

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

They [the establishment] will allow radical Islamic terrorists to enter our country by the thousands.

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

We need our radicals.

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.

We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.

We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves.

When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

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

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!

Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

Again, it's about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it. It's very important that the older generation sees this, feels it, and tastes it. Otherwise they become cynical old goats, and they die with regret. But if you can see that younger people are also tapping into visions analogous to those that you had in your twenties, that's very heartening. If you have something to teach them––which you probably do, especially if you carry some wounds yourself––then there's a mutual learning that goes on. It's not one-way by any stretch of the imagination. It's a beautiful thing.

A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

Edward Campbell Lowe was a radical in his blood and in his bones... his maternal grandfather had famously made a bonfire with a valuable portrait of the Marquess of Bute because, he had declared, it was more than a man could stomach to encounter a Tory every morning before breakfast.