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“To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.”

Ifs Men Looks Fighting Walking Mets Opposites Instinct Radical Fancy Dislike

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”

States Seems Chance Destiny Alive Terrorism Radical Outcomes Emergencies Arbitrary Suspended Hostage Extermination Wait For Him

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.”

World Given Tasks Radical Fabulous Enigmatic

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.”

Men Past Black Break Democracy Concepts Radical Establishment Continents Multiculturalism Multicultural

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.”

Want Would Be Cities Holy Losing Terrorist Radical Islamic Rome Medina

Author:Nelson DeMille

“People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.”

People Thinking States Purpose Social Interest Society Economic Conditions Fashion Prepared Radical Spheres Intervention

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away”

People Ifs Young Hope Answers Gun Radical Clothings Housing

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.”

Sound Principles Elements Universal Radical Suffrage Universal Suffrage

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Radical surgery is never fun.”

Fun Radical Surgery

Author:Brent Spiner

“No question about that, the radicals are in charge.”

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Author:Dixie Lee Ray

“In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.”

Way Country America Mother Language East Radical Indian Coast English Language North America East Coast Settlers Infusion Mother Country

Author:Robert Burchfield

“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.”

People Use Drug Conscience Historical Radical Inevitability

Author:Lester Bangs

“I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.”

Belief Products Radical

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.”

Political Social Movement Slavery Inspired Radical Reform American History Minimum Minimum Wage Social Reform Social Movements Great Political Reform Movements Ending Slavery

Author:Carl Bernstein

“The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.”

Ideas Political Revolution Independence Radical Declaration American Revolution Declaration Of Independence

Author:Carl Bernstein

“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.”

Way Years Literature Technology Dangerous Atheist Violent Reputation Radical Shelter Folds Shouting Image And Reputation

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.”

People Young Born Scripture Radical Islamic Preacher Jihad Clergymen Fired Up

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.”

Thinking Trying Mean Roots Radical

Author:Bill Ayers

“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.”

Ifs Years Enough Action Lasts Next Middle Century East Radical Middle East Our Actions Ammunition Guantanamo

Author:Nick Clooney

“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.”

People Way Country Names Liberty Truth Is Terrorist Our Country Radical Islamic

Author:Saxby Chambliss

“You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.”

People Trying Persons Facts Values Courses Winning Millions Issues Losing Active Radical Stereotype Can't Win Sold Out

Author:Bernardine Dohrn

“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.”

Looks May States House President White Effort Unions Radical Agendas White House Compassionate Wraps Ribbons Hardworking Donors Rosy Balconies

Author:Howard Dean

“I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.”

Ifs Needs Feels Sake Radical

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“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.”

Men Self Reason Responsibility Principles Roots Radical Obedience Detachment

Author:Bede Griffiths

“President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.”

President Danger Radical President Obama Judged Eco Being Judged

Author:Jeff Goodell

“In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.”

Past Cities Becoming Extremes Radical Conventional Berlin

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.”

World Interest Nature Grace Development Glory Seasons Train Radical Enjoyment Tire Harmonious Unfolding Passing Away Radical Change Witchery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”

People Thinking Men Country Political Brain Willing Benefits Endure Disaster Radical Nerves Stagnation

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.”

Politics Watches Calling Criminals Radical

Author:Roger Hodgson

“Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.”

Ideas Kids Drink Tired Teeth Radical Milk Brushes Nagging Radical Ideas

Author:Bruce Feiler

“A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.”

People Country Mother Black White Party Radical Panthers Black Panther Black Panther Party Mother Country

Author:Fred Hampton

“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.”

People Looks Done Values Opportunity Social Enjoy Water Justice Equal Social Justice Driven Radical Reform Theme Consistent Agendas Ireland Dogma Equal Opportunity Northern Ireland

Author:Peter Hain

“There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.”

People Thinking Want Different Christian Views Practice Starting Jew Extremes Tolerance Radical Splits Different Views Peace And Tolerance

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.”

Looks Radical Unusual Pollock

Author:Donald Judd

“Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.”

Way Culture Levels Communication Intellect Radical Primaries Visuals Eighty Starving Furious Radical Change Visual Images

Author:Caroline Knapp

“We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.”

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