Radical Quotes - Page 40

• Deep in the human heart
  The fire of justice burns;
  A vision of a world renewed
  Through radical concern.

  William Wallace

  Heart, Fire, Justice

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• I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Strong, Writing, Want

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• So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Years

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• Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Grace, Tears

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• 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

  Sex, Healing, Thinking

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• The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

  Mary Pipher

  Country, America, Two

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• You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Patterns, Flow, Radical Change

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Revenge, Squares

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• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Islam, Development, Dry

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• Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

  Mark Twain

  Political, Conservative, Worship

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Spiritual, Teaching, Eye

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• What has been happening in Turkey. The country has been taken over by the present rulers and they have been very, very skillful and taking over everything and taking over control over everything and now taking control over the judiciary. They will be taking over the constitution. Unless there will be some radical change, which is unlikely, I will say the tradition of Kemalism will be dead in Turkey. And Turkey is becoming a more Islamic state, in the traditional sense.

  Bernard Lewis

  Country, Taken, Islamic

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• The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.

  Diane Paulus

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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

  Identity Politics, Color, Mind

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• An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

  Steven Berkoff

  Analysis, Controversial, Interpretation

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• Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Commit

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

  Toni Morrison

  Creating, Narrative, Revolutionary

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

  Bill Joy

  Use, Research, Way

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• An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with confidence that most readers will share his sense of concern and indignation. Sounding the call to action-convincing people that change is not only necessary, but actually possible-is more problematic. In protecting animals from cruelty, it is always just one step from the mainstream to the fringe. To condemn the wrong is obvious, to suggest its abolition radical.

  Matthew Scully

  Sports, Writing, Animal

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.393, St. Martin's Press

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jealousy, War, Naked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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• Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Animal, Tests

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• I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours.

  Staceyann Chin

  Girl, Thinking, Body

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• Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

  Steve Saint

  Revolutionary Leaders, Christianity, Following

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• The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

  Grace Lee Boggs

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• Saying yes to God isn't about perfect performance, but rather perfect surrender to the Lord day by day. Your obedience becomes radical the minute this desire turns into real action. Radical obedience is hearing from God, feeling His nudges, participating in His activity, and experiencing His blessings in a way few people ever do.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Real, Blessing, People

  Lysa TerKeurst (2013). “What Happens When Women Say Yes to God Devotional”, p.31, Harvest House Publishers

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