Radical Quotes - Page 11

• Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

  Joseph Goebbels

  Military, War, Want

  "Nation, Rise Up, and Let the Storm Break Loose". Speech by Joseph Goebbels, research.calvin.edu. February 18, 1943.

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• To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour.

  Ted Trainer

  Thinking, Needs, Behaviour

  Ted Trainer (2007). “Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Imperialism, Form

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations

  Slavoj Žižek

  Creating, Space, Goal

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• If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever Christian today happen to believe and practice, be it pantheism, unitarianism, or sodomy. The Christian faith has suffered immeasurable harm because of the tendency of people to use the word Christian in a careless and non-historical way. Nothing in this argument would preclude liberal Protestants and Catholics from developing and practicing any religion they like.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Believe, Moving

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• By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

  Jerry Rubin

  Gun, Pigs, Labels

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• There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

  James A. Baldwin

  Believe, Writing, Important

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Radicalism, Economy, Cease

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Important, Society

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.26, OUP Oxford

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• We need our radicals.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Needs, Radicalism

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• Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Writing, Self

  Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.272, Amadeus Press

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• Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is carefully developed, his tone is moderate, but his conclusions are radical and profound. No political theorist or moral philosopher, no public official or political activist, can afford to ignore his arguments.

  Michael Walzer

  Profound, People, Political

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• If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiving, Sin, Unable To Forgive

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.74, Penguin

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Wish, Going Away, Radicalism

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• A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

  Woodrow Wilson

  Hands, People, Progress

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Men, Opposites

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Destiny, Arbitrary, Alive

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• It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Tasks, World, Fabulous

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• The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Men, Black

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• Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

  Nelson DeMille

  Islamic, Rome, Cities

  "Yo, Terrorists: Make Our Day" by Michael Smerconish, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 01, 2006.

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• 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

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Hope, Gun, People

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• Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Sound, Principles, Elements

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

  Dixie Lee Ray

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