#radical

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#death #fanaticism #radicalism #war #death

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing. ↗

— Jefferson Bethke

#dangerous #jesus #jesus-christ #radical #love

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

I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there. ↗

— Michael Cooper

#college #coming #help #here #i

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#because #companies #how #initially #involve

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#believe #better #could #dishonest #enough

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#end #had #lost #office #our

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion. ↗

— Johann Most

#existing #exponents #massacres #most #motion