Radical Quotes

• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

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• When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thought Provoking, Advice, Radicalism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, Thinking, Way

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• We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

  David Platt

  Giving, Looks, Demand

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• 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

  Patriotic, Two, Political

  Letter to Burke Aaron Hinsdale on January 01, 1867. "The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield". Book by Jonas Mills Bundy, p. 77, 1880.

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• 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

  Sports, Cheating, Moving

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• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Uplifting, Spiritual

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Roots, Radical Islam

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.14, Vintage

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• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

  Mark Twain

  Radicalism, Next, Conservative

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.393, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Views, Politics, Next

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Feet

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.34, Rutgers University Press

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• While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

  David Platt

  Dream, Goal, American Dream

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• One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reality, Trying

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• The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Quilts, Humor

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• The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Country, Islamic, Names

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• Radical surgery is never fun.

  Brent Spiner

  Fun, Surgery

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• The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Christian, Discovery, Perception

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• We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

  David Platt

  Order, Desire, Assumption

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• The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

  David Platt

  Dream, Assumption, Accepting

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

  Alex North

  Hero, Film, Spartacus

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• I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

  Ted Cruz

  Epic, Thinking, Government

  "Ted Cruz: Cuban Ivy League Tea Partier for Senate" by Caroline May, dailycaller.com. June 06, 2011.

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• The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Islam, Elements, Dangerous

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• Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

  Cheris Kramarae

  Women, Bad Ass, Radical Feminism

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