Radical Politics Quotes

#1. The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

James Cook

#2. He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.

Laura Kinsale

#3. My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#4. Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

Israel Horovitz

#5. Rock was different from rock and roll. Rock was virtuosic and adult, as opposed to popsy and teenaged. Rock and roll was apolitical and fun, while rock was "heavy" and often political, creating vistas of psychic energy that carried beyond the music itself and into radical politics and art.

Stephen Davis

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

Winston Churchill

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

Ben Elton

#8. In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strategy: The way to make the church radical is by identifying the church with secular "radicals", that is, socialists.

Stanley Hauerwas

#9. They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.

David Nicholls

#10. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a family is defined as two or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage or adoption. In other words, the U.S. Census Bureau is run by radical leftists. Why do you think there's a whole category for the unemployed?

Stephen Colbert

#11. 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

#12. Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

Michelle Malkin

#13. Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.

Roger Hodgson

#14. It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

Richard Prince

#15. I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable.

Whitfield Diffie

#16. the public was tired of divisive politics, tired of radical social programs.

John Jakes

#17. Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Pope John Paul II

#18. Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

Barbara Tuchman

#19. My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

Steve Earle

#20. I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli

#21. Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#22. If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Thomas Sowell

#23. The role of intellectuals and radical activists, then, must be to assess and evaluate, to attempt to persuade, to organize, but not to seize power and rule

Noam Chomsky

#24. A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.

Rick Scarborough

#25. End of work arguments became increasingly popular in the late seventies and early eighties, as radical thinkers pondered what would happen to traditional working-class struggle once there was no longer a working class. (The answer: it would turn into identity politics.)

David Graeber

#26. If you hope for any sort of dialogue and unity with all factions on the vaguely leftist or radical side of politics, you must cease from silly verbal abuse. If you don't want it, then we go on as we are, fractious and impotent.

Edward Abbey

#27. We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power ... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#28. I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

Tony Benn

#29. One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

Rush Limbaugh

#30. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

Larry Brilliant

#31. We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

George C. Scott