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RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. — Ambrose Bierce

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has - from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. — Christopher Hitchens

Fascism of the masses is nothing but disillusioned radicalism plus nationalistic philistinism — Wilhelm Reich

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond

Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot. — Susie Bright

Radicalism was like a cancer, metastasizing around the globe until every country was infected by it. — Kaylea Cross

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.
(History Will Teach Us Nothing) — Sting

Radicalism is a luxury of stability; we may dare to change things only when things lie steady under our hands. — Will Durant

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical. — Mango Wodzak

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. — Saul Alinsky

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. — Herbert Marcuse

In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent. — Randolph Bourne

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority. — Jack Newfield

we soon began to feel the effects of liberty and long speeches, and radicalism, and all that sort of thing. — Edgar Allan Poe

With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face. — Nadeem Farooq Paracha

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. — Hemant Mehta

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals. — Henry David Thoreau

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe. — Christopher Hill

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does. — Jeff Sharlet

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion. — Alexander Cockburn

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts. — Robert Frost

Just between you and me,' Mosca whispered, 'radicalism is all about walkin' on the grass. — Frances Hardinge

The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen — Tony Benn

Compassion is the radicalism of our time. — Dalai Lama XIV

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder. — Myles Horton

One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land. — Bryant McGill

They hadn't come so far just to be turned away because of adolescent radicalism. — Gregory Maguire

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine. — Paul Krugman

I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian. — Joy Davidman

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. — Eric Hoffer

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. — Christina Stead

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism. — Theodore Roosevelt

Radicalism,like stamp collecting,has its time and place.Perhaps,it is useful in one's youth,but you have to move on. — Vinod Mehta

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth? — Christopher Hitchens

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. — John R.W. Stott

We need our radicals. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. — Geoff Mulgan

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative. — Eric Hoffer

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. — Theodore Roosevelt