Quotes About Radical

#1. Put another way, RBG was already a radical just by being herself - a woman who beat the odds to make her mark.

Irin Carmon

#2. The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.

Ben Elton

#3. I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.

Cynthia Kauffman

#4. They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.

John Landis

#5. But it seemed like the more we advanced, the more the future looked impossible, making us return to the more radical times in the past.

Christian Lacroix

#6. Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

Mark Twain

#7. For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Joe Klein

#8. Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.

Jurgen Moltmann

#9. The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession ... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

Vivian Gornick

#11. We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn't believe in taking photographs; he planned to store his memories in his head, an idea I found incomprehensibly radical. My impulse to record was almost on par with my impulse to travel

Elisabeth Eaves

#12. The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

R.C. Sproul

#13. The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Noah Levine

#14. It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

Sally Quinn

#15. Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

John R.W. Stott

#16. He is a general at war with his own army. An exhorter of radical beliefs, shrinking from their obvious conclusions. It was so much easier in the lecture hall, the salon, the seminar. When theory need not be demonstrated in blood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

Tara Brach

#18. 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

#19. The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.

Rand Paul

#20. 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.

Bob Geldof

#21. 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

#22. No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

C.S. Lewis

#23. We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

Eva Burrows

#24. It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.

Paul Washer

#25. Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

Bobby McFerrin

#26. If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels.

Lisa C. Temple

#27. The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

Lindsey Graham

#28. 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

#29. People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

Franklin Foer

#30. I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

Peter Maurin

#31. What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

Annabelle Selldorf

#32. Feminism, as writer Marie Sheer remarked in 1986, "is the radical notion that women are people," a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless.

Rebecca Solnit

#33. We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.

Jeff Corwin

#34. I like to think of myself as a pure rebel;
A radical thinker on a musical level.

D-Nice

#35. It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one.

Christopher Hitchens

#36. In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

Tom Robbins

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

Jose Marti

#38. Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

Thomas More

#39. Life was radical right after I met the monster.
Later, life became harder, complicated.
Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,
Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway,
Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.

Ellen Hopkins

#40. So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.

John R.W. Stott

#41. Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Cathleen Schine

#42. A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#43. Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Gloria Steinem

#44. The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.

Moshe Sharett

#45. The unavoidable conclusion that, precisely because God and creation are ontologically distinct in the manner of the absolute and the contingent, they are morally indiscerptible.
(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17)

David Bentley Hart

#46. I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Alice Walker

#47. Allowing for love is a radical act of saying yes to all of life.

Annette Vaillancourt

#48. The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies

Julia Serano

#49. 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

#50. 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.

Joseph Estrada

#51. Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength.

Bobby Jindal

#52. The most radical conclusion to draw from this would be that your mind is the only thing that exists.

Thomas Nagel

#53. Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.

Bill Ayers

#54. 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.

Steven Soderbergh

#55. Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing.

Tiffini Johnson

#56. Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

Kenneth Clarke

#57. Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.

Robert M. Price

#58. In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth.

Michael Eric Dyson

#59. Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

Charles Van Doren

#60. We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#61. But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

Ernst Zundel

#62. The single most radical thing I know ... is that I get to take care of myself.

Anne Lamott

#63. Real education is a radical process. It thumps you on the head until everything you know makes no sense anymore. Then you run around picking up the pieces of your head and picking them back together. The pieces never go back together in the same way.

Debbie Millman

#64. Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss.

Paulo Coelho

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

Tullian Tchividjian

#66. Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas to create positive change

Natasha Tsakos

#67. As radical as it may seem, it is possible to do things only out of play. I believe that to the degree that we engage moment by moment in the playfulness of enriching life- motivated solely by the desire for its enrichment- to that degree are we being compassionate with ourselves.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#68. The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil.

Ray Anyasi

#69. Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

Chris Campanioni

#70. Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

Dennis Prager

#71. People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.

Gunnar Myrdal

#72. 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.

Henepola Gunaratana

#73. Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

Nolan Bushnell

#74. There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

Els Borst

#75. The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.

Jiulio Consiglio

#76. Stephen Baldwin believes that now we're in a particular time in the world's history where it is time that people stand up for Jesus. That people get more aggressive and radical how they communicate with our culture about Jesus.

Stephen Baldwin

#77. Our recovery of hope - full colour, three-dimensional, hard working, clear thinking, wildly radical, living hope - is our key to liberation.

Anne Bishop

#78. The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Joel Salatin

#79. They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Andy Couturier

#80. ... as I said; the Nazi party was built on ruined lives - a failed career, the bitterness that feeds on injustice, redemption promised by a radical political movement.

Alan Furst

#81. I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.

Lindsey Graham

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

Isabella Rossellini

#83. It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously.

Naomi Oreskes

#84. Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim.

Rick Santorum

#85. The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Phyllis Schlafly

#86. If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.

Steven Biko

#87. I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.

Eve Ensler

#88. I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

Israel Horovitz

#89. Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

Margaret Sanger

#90. Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.

Cornelius Castoriadis

#91. In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Agnes Smedley

#92. According to your sources
if you strike life with the radical
when it cracks
the inside's going to glow
with the translucence of red wine.

Below us people in dark coats stream home,
faces unavailable for comment.

Lori Lamothe

#93. And now, in the season of the Radical Chic, the Black Panthers.

Tom Wolfe

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

Max Lucado

#95. The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.

Grover Norquist

#96. No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.

Haifaa Al-Mansour

#97. I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

David Chipperfield

#98. The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable.

Jonathan Franzen

#99. There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Marianne Williamson

#100. The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.

Gordon Brown