Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
There was an event called the World Transformed, which was set up by Momentum, and people from across the political spectrum have had to tip their hat to it. It's vibrant, with interesting discussions and ideas. That's why it's such an interesting political moment.
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.
Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.
To be radical is to grasp things by the root.
If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
I believe we are nearing a time when a combination of technology and radical thinking will make it possible for much more intensive and restrictive conditions to be applied in more creative and fundamental ways outside of prison.
All great ideas are dangerous.
To change history you have to have very simple goals.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.
New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are not the breeding ground for true change, but rather where it comes home to roost.
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.
Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.
You know, I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most of my life, especially since I was about 16 years old.
