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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. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. ↗

— Danny Glover

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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

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A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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