An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
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60,000 QUOTES SPIDER
 


QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON RADICALS

 

 

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."

 

Angela Y. Davis (1944-, American political activist)

 

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

 

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

 

Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)

 

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has

 

Jean Genet (1910-1986, French playwright, novelist)

 

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

 

Emma Goldman (1869-1940, American anarchist)

 

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

 

George Orwell (1903-1950, British author, "Animal Farm")

 

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