Radical Idea Quotes

Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.

Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

That public parks should exist at all was a radical idea.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.

Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

Charles Darwin was an extremely conservative man burdened with an extremely radical idea..,. The scientists of those days were almost all churchmen.