Radicals Quotes
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.- Al Capone
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.- Hannah Arendt
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. -H.L. Mencken
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.- Franklin D Roosevelt
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
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. -G K Chesterton
I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.-
Robert Frost
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. -Mark Twain
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. -Christina Stead
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.-Leo Rosten
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.-John Simon
Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.-Karl Rove
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.-Jon Voight
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.-Woodrow Wilson
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.-Benjamin Netanyahu
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.-Aleksandr Lebed
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.-Bradley Whitford
I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.-Emma Bonino
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.-Henry James
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.-Phyllis Schlafly
No question about that, the radicals are in charge.-Dixie Lee Ray
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.-James A. Garfield
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.-Feisal Abdul Rauf
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.-Samuel Butler
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.-Betty Dodson
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.-Gijs de Vries
They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.-Abu Bakar Bashir
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.-John Fischer