The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain in Notebook (1935)
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By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
quote by Jerry Rubin
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By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
quote by Jerry Rubin
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A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
quote by Vladimir Lenin
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But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
quote by George Haven Putnam
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If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
quote by Adolf Hitler
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Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do
I read a book about John Dos Passos and according to
the book once radical-communist
John ended up in the Hollywood Hills living off investments
and reading the
Wall Street Journal
this seems to happen all too often.
what hardly ever happens is
a man going from being a young conservative to becoming an
old wild-ass radical
however:
young conservatives always seem to become old
conservatives.
it's a kind of lifelong mental vapor-lock.
but when a young radical ends up an
old radical
the critics
and the conservatives
treat him as if he escaped from a mental
institution.
such is our politics and you can have it
all.
keep it.
sail it up your
ass.
poem by Charles Bukowski
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Reactionism is not the same thing as conservatism. It’s far more potent a brew. Reactionary thought begins, usually, with acute despair at the present moment and a memory of a previous golden age. It then posits a moment in the past when everything went to hell and proposes to turn things back to what they once were. It is not simply a conservative preference for things as they are, with a few nudges back, but a passionate loathing of the status quo and a desire to return to the past in one emotionally cathartic revolt. If conservatives are pessimistic, reactionaries are apocalyptic. If conservatives value elites, reactionaries seethe with contempt for them. If conservatives believe in institutions, reactionaries want to blow them up. If conservatives tend to resist too radical a change, reactionaries want a revolution. Though it took some time to reveal itself, today’s Republican Party — from Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution to today’s Age of Trump — is not a conservative party. It is a reactionary party that is now at the peak of its political power.
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If a man is right, he cannot be too radical; if wrong, he cannot be too conservative.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
quote by Woodrow Wilson
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
quote by Martin Luther King
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
quote by Robert Frost
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
quote by Mark Twain
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I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
quote by Robert Frost
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I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
quote by Rutherford B. Hayes
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
quote by Ariel Durant
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What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.
quote by Tony Kushner
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
quote by C.L.R. James
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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
quote by Theodore Roosevelt
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
quote by Adolf Loos
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