#radical

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#independence #partisanship #politics #radicalism #iraq

I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#i #liked #met #other #radicals

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#even #go #holy #islamic #like

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#breaks #convention #develops #does #knowledge

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty. ↗

— Francois Guizot

#liberty #opposed #radically #revolution #spirit

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#few #few people #giving #giving up #him

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#different #different places #drama #good #good drama

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. ↗

— Edward Bond

#being #greeks #human #human being #meant

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#anything #crisis #ever #great #nobody