#radical

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#atheist #back #crawl #dangerous #easiest

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation. ↗

— David Platt

#radical #southern-seminary #salvation

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains. ↗

— Imre Kertész

#deception #government #radicalism #tolerance #truth

Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien. -Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script ↗

— Keiko Nobumoto

#black #cowboy-bebop #edward #funny #jet

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial ↗

— Susie Bright

#los-angeles #radicalism #revolution #death

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain. ↗

— Tara Brach

#buddhist #inspirational #radical-acceptance #inspirational

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#openness #radicals #terrorists #change

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#democracy #freedom #liberation #love #marxism

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#dissent #free-expression #freedom #radical #rebel