Quotes About Radical

I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.'

Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.

I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.

When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

I use some pretty radical harmonics at the beginning of 'Heresy.'

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.

It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.

If being an advocate of peace, justice, and humanity toward all human beings is radical, then I'm glad to be called radical. And if it is radical to oppose the use of 70 percent of federal monies for destruction and war, then I am a radical.

My dad... was in the military, a drill sergeant, when he was a preacher. You know how some Christians really get into church and become very radical? Imagine him as a radical and a drill sergeant. It was intense.