Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

We need our radicals.

Ambrose Bierce

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Mark Twain

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

Eric Hoffer

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Geoff Mulgan

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Clay Shirky

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Cindy Gallop

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Rick Santorum

You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.

Charles Spurgeon

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Kurt Vonnegut

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

David Elms

Whether through apathy or confusion, the failure to claim these credits is just one way we're needlessly gifting vast sums to the taxman each year.

David Briggs

There's a lot of investor apathy out there right now, and I don't see any incentive for people to move until the payrolls report. After that, people who are holding out may be willing to get back in.

John Metcalf

I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.

J. Anthony Lukas

The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

Alafair Burke

Apathy is grossly undervalued and never there for me when I need it.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Adlai Stevenson

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.