R Quotes
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“Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.”
“Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian t-shirts. Radical Christians are those who bear fruit of the Holy Spirit...A little boy, Andrew, a Muslim shot him five times through the stomach and left him on a sidewalk simply because he said, 'I am so afraid, but I can not deny Jesus Christ! Please don't kill me! But I will not deny Him!' He died in a pool of blood, and you talk about being a radical Christian because you wear a t-shirt!”
“Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.”
“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.”
“Radical discipleship takes place in a relational environment where people feel comfortable exploring their personal and spiritual issues and learning what it means to be a follower of Jesus.”
Source: Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship
“Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien.
-Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script”
“Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.”
“Radical feminism, the recognition of patriarchy and its abolition is, in fact, the real humanist revolution, which will free all people, but, of course, first of all, women.”
Source: 7000 years: ...of patriarchy. Until the radical era
“Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.”
“Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the radical feminist approach, masculinity is the behaviour of the male ruling class and femininity is the behaviour of the subordinate class of women. Thus gender can have no place in the egalitarian future that feminism aims to create.”
Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
“Radical feminists didn’t need FBI infiltration — the mechanism for sisterly cannibalization was already well under way.”
Source: Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir
“Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.”
Source: It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good
“Radical Forgiveness is much more than the mere letting go of the past. It is the key to creating the life that we want, and the world that we want. It is the key to our own happiness and the key to world peace. It is no longer an option. It is our destiny.”
“Radical forgiveness is proving once again that you are not allowing that storm to defeat you.”
“Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.”
“Radical inhumanity warrants radical reparations.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.”
“Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.”
“Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.”
“Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.”
“Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.”
Source: Interventions
“Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.”
“Radical isn't about how high you jump in a worship service, its about how you walk when you come down.”
“Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.”
“Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.”
“Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.”
Source: Face to Face with God
“Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.”
“Radical Pragmatics – “words are fluid, and can mean different things in different circumstances. […] And what we draw upon in memory is not a lexicon of definitions but a network of associations among words and the kinds of events and actors they typically convey.”
Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
“Radical self-acceptance enables us to sit at the feet of our life to be taught. Being taught transforms our fears and struggles into a kind of compost from which we may grow a more joyful life. And, along the way, we become a little more free of self-imposed obstacles and become a little more our Self. And, we are glad.”
Source: Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer
“Radical self-acceptance is being okay with turning down things that don’t work for you.”
“Radical self-denial gives the feel of adventure. If we forsake all, we even have the chance of glorious martyrdom. But in service, we must experience the many little death of going beyond ourselves. Service banishes us to the mundane, the ordinary, the trivial”
Source: Celebration of Discipline
“Radical self-love necessitates changed hearts, beginning with our own. Quite simply, we cannot build in the world that which we have not built in ourselves.”
Source: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.”
“Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.”
“Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.”
“Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'”
Source: Women, Culture & Politics
“Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.”
“Radical surgery is never fun.”
“Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.”
“Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously”
Source: Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation
“Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.”
“Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).”
“Radical transparency is critical to having an idea meritocracy because it shows what's actually happening without spin and prevents people from maneuvering politically behind each others' backs. It brings problems and weaknesses to the surface and allows people to see how they are dealt with, so it's great for training people on how to deal with real problems.”
“Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more regularly challenged and tested against evidence. They do not get to float freely down the mainstream; they must swim against the current. They cannot rest on the orthodox power to foreclose dissent, and they are not supported by the unanimity of bias that passes for objectivity.”
“Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.”
“Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.”
“Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.”
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
“Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.”
Source: The Looming Tower
“RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World