Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
~By Jim Harrison ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.
~By Nicholas Stern ~
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
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 ~
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
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 ~
The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~
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 ~
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
~By Francois Guizot ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
~By Susan Sontag ~
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
~By Isabella Rossellini ~
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
~By Ariel Durant ~
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
~By Oliver North ~
I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.
~By Steven Pinker ~
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
~By Edward Bond ~
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
~By Robert Frost ~
This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
~By Earl Browder ~
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
~By Angela Davis ~
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
~By Henry James ~
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
~By Robert Reich ~
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 ~
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
~By Dennis Miller ~
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
~By John Templeton ~
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
~By Randall Terry ~
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 ~
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 ~
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
~By Dick Wolf ~
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 ~
I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
~By Jeremy Piven ~
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 ~
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
~By William James ~
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
~By William Weld ~
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 ~
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.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
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 ~
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
~By Donald Judd ~
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
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.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.
~By Tony Visconti ~
No question about that, the radicals are in charge.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
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 ~
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
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 ~
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 ~
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
~By Charles Van Doren ~
Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.
~By Joe Henderson ~
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.
~By Lester Bangs ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.
~By Kirk Cameron ~
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 ~
Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
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 ~
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 have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
~By Aleksandr Lebed ~
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
~By Ted Rall ~
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 ~
We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
~By Todor Zhivkov ~
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
~By Lars von Trier ~
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 ~
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
~By Jose Marti ~
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.
~By Betty Dodson ~
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
~By Donald Judd ~
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
~By Gary Becker ~
I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.
~By Emma Bonino ~
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.
~By Josiah Warren ~
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
~By Charles Hodge ~
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
~By Raymond Williams ~
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 ~
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
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 ~
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
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 ~
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 ~
We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
~By Anthony Kiedis ~
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
~By Tony Benn ~
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
~By Alex North ~
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