An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.
~By Chris Anderson ~
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
~By Joan Didion ~
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.
~By Karl Rove ~
We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
~By Ed Miliband ~
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
~By William Weld ~
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?
~By Michael Davis ~
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
~By John Templeton ~
There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.
~By Tim Pawlenty ~
By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
~By Chris Christie ~
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
~By George Ripley ~
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
~By Tim Johnson ~
Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
~By Eric Cantor ~
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
~By Jose Marti ~
I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.
~By Susan George ~
The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
~By Jose Marti ~
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
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.
~By Benjamin Netanyahu ~
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
~By Dee Hock ~
The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.
~By Johann Most ~
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
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.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
~By Emma Goldman ~
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
~By George Murray ~
Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.
~By Eric Shinseki ~
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.
~By John Simon ~
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.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
~By Robert Reich ~
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
~By Donald Judd ~
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
~By John Fischer ~
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
~By Henry Flynt ~
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~By Richard Adams ~
Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
~By Vito Fossella ~
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
~By Randall Terry ~
I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.
~By Steven Pinker ~
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
~By Francois Guizot ~
Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
~By Brian May ~
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
~By Raymond Williams ~
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
~By Edward Bond ~
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
~By Tony Benn ~
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.
~By Powell Clayton ~
And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
~By Peter King ~
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.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
~By Lou Brock ~
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.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
~By Paul Watzlawick ~
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
I am a radical.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
~By Henry James ~
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
~By Edward Bond ~
We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.
~By David Cameron ~
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
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.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
~By Edward Bond ~
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Radical surgery is never fun.
~By Brent Spiner ~
It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
~By Courtney Love ~
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.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
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.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
~By Peter Hain ~
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
~By Howard Dean ~
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
~By James A. Garfield ~
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
~By Ariel Durant ~
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
~By Jim Harrison ~
I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
No question about that, the radicals are in charge.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
~By Hesketh Pearson ~
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
~By Dennis Miller ~
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
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