Radicalism Quotes

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

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

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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

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.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

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.

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

After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

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.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

We need our radicals.