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“Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.”

Ideas Sometimes Life Is Belief Grows Society Youth Letting Go Empty Conservative Possession Radical Symptoms Conservatism

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“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.”

Real Might Community Levels Consciousness Society Transformation Crisis Western Currents Radical Paradigm Dominance

Author:Stanislav Grof

“When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.”

“We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.”

Problem Political Politics Society Economic Solve Architecture Radical Political Power American Society Restructuring

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.”

“Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously”

Firsts God Spiritual Spirituality Society Transformation Radical Spiritual Change

Book:Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation

Source: Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation

“How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.”

“He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.”

Thinking Important Politics Society Politician Radical

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

“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