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• The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

  Saul Alinsky

  Rules For Radicals, Written

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.3, Vintage

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• The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.

  Russell Kirk

  Environmental Quality, Class, Issues

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• In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Philosophy, Passion, Play

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons

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• I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

  Barney Frank

  Army, Thinking, Rights

  "Barney’s Great Adventure" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2009.

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• Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

  Jerry Falwell

  Philosophy, War, Biblical

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• The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the family. I am absolutely persuaded one of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice movement is because being a mother is the unique
  characteristic of womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they don't want anybody else to have that privilege either.

  Pat Robertson

  Mother, Unique, Moral Fiber

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• What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

  Brad Thor

  Writing, Thinking, Islam

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• What we’re putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state… for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Years, Benefits

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• Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Christian, Jesus, Feelings

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• It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

  Alan Keyes

  Military, Agendas, Accepting

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• Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

  Nigel Farage

  Law, Ideas, Regulators

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• Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.

  Robert Bork

  Radical Feminism, Feminist, Western Culture

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• Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Radical Feminism, Choices

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• 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

  Memories, Book, Law

  "Commentaries For A New American Passover Seder, Jonathan Safran Foer Presents New Haggadah", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.

  Francis Chan

  Song, Crazy, Sacrifice

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.2, David C Cook

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• John Boehner has to start taking a macro step towards the American people, away from the more radical elements of his party. You know, it's almost a form of anarchy. We have a law that was passed by Congress. We have a law that the Supreme Court said was legal. It's been implemented. And I'm sorry they don't like it. There's been a lot of laws in the past the Democrats didn't like. But that's what this country is about. You pass laws. And if they are deemed legal, you respect them and you move forward.

  Howard Bragman

  Country, Sorry, Party

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

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Down And, Quiet, Acts Of Love

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Leadership, Thinking, People

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• Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

  Georg Feuerstein

  Yoga, Practice, Transformation

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• If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in radical obedience to everything God showed them. the world would be turned upside down. How do we know? Because that's what first century Christians did, and the world is still talking about it.

  Henry Blackaby

  Christian, Talking, Goal

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2001). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world.

  Michael Spencer

  Christian, Jesus, Expression

  Michael Spencer (2010). “Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality”, p.125, WaterBrook

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• I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, Gone, Way

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• For some reason, that I can’t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure why… but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.

  Jad Abumrad

  Listening, Trying, May

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• I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the benefits. We've sold out the rest of life on earth for convenience, creature comforts, and cheap consumer goods, and it's appalling. I'm sickened by this bargain.

  Lierre Keith

  Thinking, Civilization, Rest Of Life

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• Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Generosity, Culture, Satisfaction

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.94, B&H Publishing Group

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