Radicalism Quotations

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

I do agree that in particular, Turkey and the Gulf nations have got to make up their minds. Are they going to stand with us against this kind of jihadi radicalism or not? And there are many ways of doing it. They can provide forces. They can provide resources. But they need to be absolutely clear about where they stand.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

We need our radicals.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.