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Radical Quotes - Page 4

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

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

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

Josiah Warren (1852). “Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society”, p.105

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: The Continent”, p.550, Library of America

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

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

"Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, p. 113, archive.org. 1971.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.26, Vintage

Thinking for yourself is still a radical act

Nancy Kline (1999). “Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind”, p.24, Hachette UK

If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.

"5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

Herbert Spencer (1851). “Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.469