But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says that the radical intelligentsia have a right to take state power and to run their countries by force, and that is an idea which is rather appealing to intellectuals.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are
It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.
No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems. . . a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.
The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.
The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance.
There is no fringe in the Democrat Party. They are all extreme, radical leftists, socialists, neocoms, whatever you want to call 'em.
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.
When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
