Famous quotes containing the word radical:
“Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditionsPolitics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
—Walter Lippmann (18891974)
“If in the opinion of the Tsars authors were to be the servants of the state, in the opinion of the radical critics writers were to be the servants of the masses. The two lines of thought were bound to meet and join forces when at last, in our times, a new kind of regime the synthesis of a Hegelian triad, combined the idea of the masses with the idea of the state.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)