#Radicalism Quotes

“I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.”

“Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”

“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.”

“Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.”

“The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.”

“What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.”

“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.”

“Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.”

“If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine”

“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”

“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.”

“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”