Quotes by Radicalism Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. Alphonse de Lamartine radicalism desperation logic RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. Ambrose Bierce radicalism morrow affair Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. Christina Stead radicalism middle class 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 radicalism going-away wish Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level. Edward Snowden radicalism levels danger We need our radicals. Eleanor Roosevelt radicalism radical needs There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative. Eric Hoffer radicalism conservative marriage Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. Eric Hoffer radicalism radical economy German radicalism: freedom-masturbation. Franz Grillparzer masturbation radicalism freedom 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. Franklin D. Roosevelt radicalism everyday government Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. Geoff Mulgan radicalism apathy our-society 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 radicalism character men Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals. Henry David Thoreau radicalism jesus christ Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does. Jeff Sharlet radicalism speak doe When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King, Jr. radicalism thought-provoking advice 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 radicalism violence reality The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. Mark Twain radicalism conservative next 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 radicalism gone ideas Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. Ralph Waldo Emerson radicalism air children 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson radicalism selfishness hatred 12»