Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist, Author
"A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention."
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Radical
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Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."
Russell Brand
Comedian, Actor
"The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have."
Cornel West
Philosopher
"We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness."
Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!"
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"To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced."
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"The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy."
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"Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader."
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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable."
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"If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us."
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"Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God."
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"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."
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"...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all."
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another."
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"Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer."
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"We need our radicals."
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad."
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"Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith."
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"You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life."
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"The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative."
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"The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems."
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"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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"The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow."
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"If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated."
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