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Quotes About Radicals

The radicals are right about that. Diversity is the key. "But it need not be the same diversity as existed before mankind. Indeed, it cannot be the same. We are in a time of changes. Species will pass away and others take their place, as has happened before. An ecosystem frozen in stone can only become a fossil.
~ David Brin
For polyatomic free radicals and ions, one is dependent both for the ground states and the excited states on the study of electronic spectra to obtain the shapes and the geometrical parameters.
~ Gerhard Herzberg
One indicator of the self-conscious dissociation of radicals like Gitlin and Hayden from reformers like King is that neither of them, nor any other white student activist, sos leader, or anti-war spokesman was in Memphis for the demonstrations King was organizing in 1968 at the time he was killed.. In fact, no one in the New Left (at least no one who mattered) could still be called a serious supporter of King in the year before he was assassinated.
~ David Horowitz
Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big guns of this war are directed from the centers of intellect on the high ground of the university culture, where tenured radicals have created an anti-American ideology and forced it on the nation's youth through the curriculum.
~ David Horowitz
serious case of this syndrome, sympathizing and identifying with subversive characters while being mysteriously repelled by genuine virtue. Seen at public events with leftists radicals, LGBT groups, or proabortion outfits like Planned Parenthood, Obama's smile is broad and animated; he obviously feels comfortable and at home there. Yet he displays a palpable aversion to all that is emblematic of the success of Western Judeo-Christian civilization.
~ Unknown
Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.
~ James Surowiecki
Recall that in April 2008 candidate Obama—unaware that a blogger was recording his remarks at a private fundraiser for moneyed Bay Area radicals—dismissed religion as a consolation for the "bitter" in Middle America. Contained within this one remark was the seed of secularist bigotry toward the religious that would come to full and odorous flower in his first term.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
The radicals who perpetrated the Charlie Hebdo attack were not motivated by Western imperialism but by members of a free society violating Islamic law.
~ Ben Domenech
A Turkey under a dictatorial regime, providing haven to violent radicals and pushing its Kurdish citizens into desperation, would be a nightmare for Middle East security.
~ Fethullah Gulen
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.
~ Gijs de Vries
The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.
~ Ben Domenech
In 1968, Kojève held a meeting with the leaders of the West German Student Movement. His advice: the most important thing for them as student leaders to do would be to learn Ancient Greek. The young radicals were "quite perplexed." Afterwards Kojève went to visit Carl Schmitt, arguing that he's "the only person in Germany worth talking to." "Carl Schmitt: Apocalyptic Prophet of the Counterrevolution
~ Unknown
In the first year and a half of Shostakovich's life, roughly 4,500 government officials were injured or killed in assassination attempts by radicals. In his toddler years, the government recorded 20,000 terrorist acts across the empire, with more than 7,500 fatalities.
~ Unknown
The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the time comes to grant it nowadays, the radicals get screened out. That's its principal function. It's a very good system, really - keeps academic life at a decent level of tranquility.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.
~ John Steinbeck
All in all it was a good firm-grounded family, permanent, and successfully planted in the Salinas Valley, not poorer than many and not richer than many either. It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists. Samuel was well pleased with the fruit of his loins.
~ John Steinbeck
These radicals and liberals opposed communism precisely because Soviet-style regimes outlawed independent unions and the right to strike.
~ Matthew Continetti
Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.
~ Matthew Scully
After 1955, the AASW's successor, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) assisted the FBI in the investigation of suspected radicals such as Meyer Schreiber and Margaret Wheeler.
~ Unknown
Perhaps I lost as a politician, perhaps my self-confidence played a trick on me because I did not recognize the double threat – from zealots and radicals, and from reactionaries in my immediate surroundings. Nonetheless, perestroika won. A relapse into the past is out of the question.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Originally, the prohibitionists had habitually referred to themselves as temperate, as men of temperance. By the 1880s and 1890s, however, this was no longer true: the prohibitionists now spoke of themselves as "radicals." It was no longer enough to attack hard liquor; denunciations of beer were now stepped up.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
the wrong questions have been asked, by "liberals" and "radicals," by "conservatives" and "orthodox" alike.
~ Unknown