Radicalism famous quotes

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Radicalism #Logic #Desperation

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.
-- E. L. Doctorow

#Wish #Going Away #Radicalism

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

#Marriage #Radicalism #Conservative

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

#Apathy #Radicalism #Our Society

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.
-- Powell Clayton

#Ideas #Gone #Radicalism

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.
-- Richard T. Ely

#Attitude #Class #Radicalism

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

#Cutting #Hair #Radicalism

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

#Lying #Radicalism #Facts

The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen
-- Tony Benn

#Years #Flags #Radicalism

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.
-- Max Blumenthal

#Reality #Violence #Radicalism

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.
-- Jeff Sharlet

#Doe #Radicalism #Speak