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 ~
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 conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
~By Ariel Durant ~
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
~By Lars von Trier ~
I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
~By Donald Judd ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
~By Ken Livingstone ~
There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
~By William Weld ~
I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
~By Isabella Rossellini ~
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 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 ~
As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
~By Alice Walker ~
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
~By Jose Marti ~
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
~By Robert Bourassa ~
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 don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.
~By Steven Pinker ~
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
~By Gary Becker ~
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 ~
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.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
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 ~
I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
~By Edward Bond ~
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 ~
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 ~
I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.
~By Jeremy Piven ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
~By Henry James ~
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 ~
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
~By Edward Bond ~
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
~By Leo Rosten ~
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
~By Jim Harrison ~
Radical surgery is never fun.
~By Brent Spiner ~
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 ~
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 ~
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.
~By David Talbot ~
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
I am a radical.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
~By Dixie Lee Ray ~
I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
~By Oliver North ~
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
~By Robert Frost ~
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
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 ~
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
~By Dennis Miller ~
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
~By Donald Judd ~
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 ~
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 ~
As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
~By Kate Clinton ~
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 ~
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 man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.
~By Emma Bonino ~
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 ~
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 ~
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