Best 155 quotes in «radical quotes» category

The heart of being a radical isn’t knowing all the right books, it isn’t about kings over the sea or the parliament over in the capital. It’s… looking at the world around you and seeing the things that make you sick to your stomach with anger. The things there’s no point making a fuss about because that’s just the way the world is, and always was and always will be. And then it means getting good and angry about it anyway, and kickin’ up a hurricane. Because nothing is writ across the sky to say the world must be this way. A tree can grow two hundred years, and look like it’ll last a thousand more - but when lightning strikes at last, it burns.

The powerful do not understand hope. Hope is not part of their vocabulary. They speak in cold, dead words of national security, global markets, electoral strategy, staying on message, image and money...Those addicted to power, blinded by self-exaltation, cannot decipher the words of hope any more than most of us can decipher hieroglyphics.

The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and they can see no wrong in it. It justifies its former power and lust to hold on to it - and if possible, to regain it by quoting fundamentalist and radical religion and tradition and calling it 'love'. Some love. How can oppression and power over another person's life ever be 'love'?

There is much to be angry about in today's world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns.

The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.

This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I told everyone I was gonna do this, so I gotta do it... or I will be living a life of feminist-sounding somedays. And I will be more responsible, powerful, and amazing afterward. I will be able to do anything and not self-consciously stare at elevator numbers when the doors close. I will look the other person in right the eye and nod hello.

There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They were the human torches setting aflame the hearts of men so that they passionately fought for the rights of their fellow men, all men. They were hated, feared, and branded as radicals . They wore the epithet of radical as a badge of honor. They fought for the right of men to govern themselves, for the right of men to walk erect as free men and not grovel before kings, for the Bill of Rights, for the abolition of slavery, for public education, and for everything decent and worth while. They loved men and fought for them. Their neighbor’s misery was their misery. They acted as they believed.

The scary thing about apathy is that it is never conscious. We don’t wake up every morning choosing to be apathetic – but we must consider a responsibility when we choose to believe that we can leave the world as it is, and meaningful changes are too radical to pursue.

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

To hear a radical change of perspective is to hear a kingdom minded man speak

We cannot experience and memorize the stories of Jesus without seeing his radical inclusion - taking those who were left on the edges of society, left to their own solitude, and bringing them into his Kingdom.

We believe that today's younger generation, who started a global movement by camping out on Wall Street and its equivalents around the world and who are often choosing a road less traveled rather than joining the military-industrial-academic-prision complex–these people are prophets in our midst.

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.

We have to get over this notion, which many of us are taught early, that your soul is in your body. Because if your soul is in your body, it doesn't grow very much–your body is obviously limited in size. But if your soul's not in your body, but your body is in your soul, then your soul can grow as much as your heart and mind grow.

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviours, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us.

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.

When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.

Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

I am going to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

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

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.