Quotes About Radical

My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I want to do experimental films.

And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.

I've been called an extremist.

I'm a bit of an extremist.

I am an extremist.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.

I never dared to be radical when youngFor fear it would make me conservative when old.

and 'woman as she is now in this eon… armed and militant.'" "A radical feminist witch." "Which sounds quite cool when you say it,

The defining characteristics of modern liberalism are radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than of opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification).

Radical egalitarianism necessarily presses us towards collectivism because a powerful state is required to suppress the differences that freedom produces.

Cultural Imperium' suggesting the idea of cultural hegemony such that what appears to be 'avant garde' and 'radical' is in fact intensely conservative and defined by the forces of economy and commodity trading which have absolutely no bearing on intrinsic value.

The radical feminists I have worked with do not limit their critique to patriarchy. To emphasize the radical potential of radical feminism: Beyond the sex/gender system, radical feminism's understanding of the way in which patriarchy normalizes hierarchy leads not just to a focus on men's domination of women but also to a deeper critique of power systems more generally.

to imbibe it is to undergo, at the peril of my very soul, a transformation so radical that simply to behold it threatens the sanity.

The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.

Too often, our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they succeeded in realizing their visions rather than on the merits or power of the visions themselves. By such a measure, virtually every radical movement failed because the basic power relations they sought to change remained pretty much intact. And yet it is precisely these alternative visions and dreams that inspire new generations to struggle for change.

Owen tried to convince fellow capitalists that investing in people could produce a greater return than investments in machinery. But the business world dismissed him as a wild radical whose ideas would harm the people he wanted to help (O'Toole, 1995). Owen was at least 100 years ahead of his time.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is an illusion.— BRENNAN MANNING

Martin Hengel said that the only difference between a fundamentalist and a radical liberal is their starting presuppositions. Their methods are the same: they start with where they want to end up and then look at all the evidence selective for their purposes, rather than being open to what the evidence actually reveals.

Certain it is that Socrates makes very radical proposals of "reform" without encountering serious resistance. But there are also a few indications in the Republic to the effect that the longed-for reformation is not likely to succeed on the political plane or that the only possible reformation is that of the individual man.