Quotes of: Radical-change Keyword

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more "radical" and "merciless." (Ch.3, by Jaco Cilliers, p. 48)

Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment.

The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling to engage with radical Islamism or whatever you want to call it - if you're not willing to call it what it is - and...

Pete Hegseth

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

Susan Minot

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

Thomas Sowell

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

Keith Ellison

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

Millicent Fawcett

The idea [passing the 17th amendment] benefited from a unique political and cultural atmosphere that consumed a nation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries-a progressive populism promoting simultaneously radical egalitarianism and centralize...

Mark Levin

We worry a lot about ISIS traveling overseas from Syria to the United States, but I think one of the greatest fears are those already within the U.S. who are being radicalized and inspired by the ISIS propaganda that's out there on the Internet.

Michael McCaul

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

Robin S. Sharma