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  • Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.' -- Angela Davis
  • Radical surgery is never fun. -- Brent Spiner
  • Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. -- Robert Reich
  • Radical politics tend to be simple minded. -- Israel Horovitz
  • Please deal with the Radical Islamic Threat today. -- Bobby Jindal
  • Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity. -- Craig A. Evans
  • Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. -- Tom Tancredo
  • Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha. -- Tara Brach
  • Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously -- Sulak Sivaraksa
  • We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism. -- Kevin McCarthy
  • Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is. -- Tara Brach
  • The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical. -- Patrick Dixon
  • Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. -- Hemant Mehta
  • Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. -- Anne Lamott
  • Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said. -- Bill Johnson
  • He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. -- Mason Cooley
  • Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. -- Anne Lamott
  • Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary. -- Nolan Bushnell
  • Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. -- Eric Hoffer
  • [Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades. -- Mike Bickle
  • On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness. -- Tara Brach
  • Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions. -- Tom Wolfe
  • Radical isn't about how high you jump in a worship service, its about how you walk when you come down. -- Mike Bickle
  • Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
  • I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors. -- Ray Dalio
  • Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. -- Carl Bernstein
  • Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions. -- Noam Chomsky
  • 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
  • Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. -- Hannah Arendt
  • It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women. -- Sally Quinn
  • Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging. -- Marsha M. Linehan
  • It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists. -- Carroll Quigley
  • Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace. -- Rick Santorum
  • Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings -- Cheris Kramarae
  • The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. -- Mark Twain
  • A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. -- Dennis Miller
  • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. -- Josh Billings
  • The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. -- David Platt
  • We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. -- David Platt
  • The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account. -- Alice Walker
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No." -- David Platt
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • 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
  • And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across. -- Bear Grylls
  • The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. -- Daniel D. Palmer
  • A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. -- Jose Marti
  • My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant. -- Susan Wojcicki
  • For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. -- Edward T. Hall
  • The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule. -- Jeffrey Sachs
  • Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.' -- Rand Paul
  • The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! -- Noam Chomsky
  • Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
  • It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon. -- Marat Safin
  • The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. -- Newt Gingrich
  • The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. -- Grover Norquist
  • We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. -- Tom Robbins
  • If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. -- John Podhoretz
  • Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. -- Margaret Fuller
  • People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks. -- Tom Freston
  • 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
  • When you talk about *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys - we were like the New Kids, and New Kids were like the Bee Gees. But Girl Radical will be the first ones, and that's a crazy idea. That's what got us so excited. -- JC Chasez
  • With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out. -- Octavio Paz
  • I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like. -- Jeremy Lin
  • Be as radical as Reality. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • Yoga is the practice of radical transformation -- Georg Feuerstein
  • For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Pollock looks unusual and radical even now. -- Donald Judd
  • Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Artists are the radical voice of civilization. -- Paul Robeson
  • The key to success is radical generosity. -- Agapi Stassinopoulos
  • I don't think I'm a flaming radical. -- Jeanne Phillips
  • I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical! -- Mort Sahl
  • We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination. -- Mairead Corrigan
  • telling the truth about children's lives is radical. -- Lucille Clifton
  • The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. -- Brent Scowcroft
  • We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice. -- David Platt
  • The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. -- Julia Kristeva
  • We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees. -- Todor Zhivkov
  • Thinking for yourself is still a radical act -- Nancy Kline
  • Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. -- Gloria Steinem
  • I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty. -- Bradford Cox
  • A radical is one who speaks the truth. -- Charles August Lindbergh
  • I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind. -- Andrea Dworkin
  • Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help. -- William James
  • Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant. -- William Poundstone
  • You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom is still the most radical idea of all. -- Nathaniel Branden
  • I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker. -- Steven Pinker
  • We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists. -- Ted Cruz
  • One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another. -- George Will
  • Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing -- Tony Benn
  • The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never. -- Dennis Prager
  • To be radical is to grasp things by the root. -- Karl Marx
  • Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that. -- Philip Treacy
  • A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian. -- Nicole Brossard
  • The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace. -- Jiulio Consiglio
  • The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance . -- Stephen Batchelor
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