Radical Act Quotes

#1. To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act ... It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

William Randolph Hearst

#3. Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever

John Gummer

#4. Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act ... Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.

Naomi Klein

#5. We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Anthony Kiedis

#6. The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. Love is an act of art ... It is this creative quality of love, that it seeks to reshape the world for its sake and to create happiness, which makes love radical and potentially seditious ... the inverse is also true: art is an act of love.

Rod Dubey

#8. Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#9. Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#10. All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

Catharine MacKinnon

#11. We need strength. We don't have it. When Jeb [Bush] comes out and he talks about the border, and I saw it and I was witness to it, and so was everyone else, and I was standing there, "they come across as an act of love," he's saying the same thing right now with radical Islam.

Donald Trump

#12. Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

Robert Grudin

#13. this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.

Jerome A. Miller

#14. 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

#15. Thinking for yourself is still a radical act

Nancy Kline

#16. It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#17. Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

Chris Cavanaugh

#18. The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.

Patch Adams

#19. I still don't know how to live my life except on my haunches at the feet of Jesus, eyes fixed on his face. Nothing else "works." No formula, no method makes me feel so fully human and alive as the radical act of living loved.

Sarah Bessey

#20. I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#21. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Carter G. Woodson

#22. The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Pope Benedict XVI

#23. Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#24. If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.

Lizz Winstead

#25. The reality of our connection is a new story for the whole of civilization, and operating from the wisdom of relatedness is a radical act. It is the stuff of peaceful revolution and lasting transformation.

Heather Lyn Mann

#26. But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker ... it would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.

Jim DeMint

#27. The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

Colin Beavan

#28. Deep emotion in this age is a radical act.

Masha Tupitsyn

#29. Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

Terry Tempest Williams

#30. There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Robert Bourassa

#31. Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

Grenville Kleiser

#32. 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

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

Annette Vaillancourt