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“A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest--at the command--of his head.”
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“When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence. Because if openness, women's empowerment, and freedom of thought and inquiry are the real sources of the West's economic strength, then the Arab-Muslim world would have to change. And the fundamentalists and extremists do not want to change.”
― The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
― The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

“To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.”
― Reflections on a Ravaged Century
― Reflections on a Ravaged Century

“Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.”
― Fancy Pants
― Fancy Pants

“Skinner shared how he came to worship an elite White Jesus Christ, who cleaned people up through 鈥渞ules and regulations,鈥� a savior who prefigured Richard Nixon鈥檚 vision of law and order. But one day, Skinner realized that he鈥檇 gotten Jesus wrong. Jesus wasn鈥檛 in the Rotary Club and he wasn鈥檛 a policeman. Jesus was a 鈥渞adical revolutionary, with hair on his chest and dirt under his fingernails.鈥� Skinner鈥檚 new idea of Jesus was born of and committed to a new reading of the gospel. 鈥淎ny gospel that does not 鈥� speak to the issue of enslavement鈥� and 鈥渋njustice鈥� and 鈥渋nequality鈥攁ny gospel that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free in the name of Jesus Christ鈥攊s not the gospel.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist

“Anthony Howard, then editor of the left-wing New Statesman, once pointed out that if Huey Long had only used left-wing phraseology he would have enjoyed wide support from the New York and London intelligentsia.”
― Reflections on a Ravaged Century
― Reflections on a Ravaged Century

“The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.”
― The Art of Being Ruled
― The Art of Being Ruled

“You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.”
― History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
― History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

“Conservatism is far from what I鈥檓 aiming at in proclaiming the establishment of a Sethian left-hand path tradition in the West as one of the first missions of the SLM. In fact, in establishing such a tradition, true to the spirit of sacred transgression and holy subversion that is essential to both Seth and the left-hand path, we are opening a door that enlightens through endangerment, that awakens through risk and peril: this is a radical (from Latin radix, root, implying how deep a change is required) enterprise that is the very opposite of conservatism.鈥�
--鈥淔rom the Eye of the Storm鈥� (Zeena's column as Hemet-Neter Tepi Seth for the SLM), Volume I - Summer Solstice issue (2003): "Building a Sethian Left-Hand Path Tradition in the West.”
― Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic
--鈥淔rom the Eye of the Storm鈥� (Zeena's column as Hemet-Neter Tepi Seth for the SLM), Volume I - Summer Solstice issue (2003): "Building a Sethian Left-Hand Path Tradition in the West.”
― Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

“Radicals have value, at least; they can move the center. On a scale of 1 to 5, 3 is moderate, 1 and 5 the hardliners. But if a good radical takes it up to 9, then 5 becomes the new center. I already saw it working in the American Muslim community. For years women were neglected in mosques, denied entrance to the main prayer halls and relegated to poorly maintained balconies and basements. It was only after a handdful of Muslim feminists raised "lunatic fringe" demands like mixed-gender prayers with men and women standing together and even women imams giving sermons and leading men in prayer that major organizations such as ISNA and CAIR began to recognize the "moderate" concerns and deal with the issue of women in mosques.
I've taken part in the woman-led prayer movement, both as a writer and as a man who prays behind women, happy to be the extremist who makes moderate reform seem less threatening. Insha'Allah, what's extreme today will not be extreme tomorrow.”
― Journey to the End of Islam
I've taken part in the woman-led prayer movement, both as a writer and as a man who prays behind women, happy to be the extremist who makes moderate reform seem less threatening. Insha'Allah, what's extreme today will not be extreme tomorrow.”
― Journey to the End of Islam

“We demand for every working man work and bread!
For the people, a place to live. No democrat has the right
to deny these. We want action!
We demand war against the profiteers, peace with the workers!
We demand a solution to the Jewish question. We
Want all foreign races out of German life,
We demand an end to the German parliament. We want a leader above the mob.
We demand death sentences for crimes against the people! To the gallows with the profiteers and money-lenders!”
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For the people, a place to live. No democrat has the right
to deny these. We want action!
We demand war against the profiteers, peace with the workers!
We demand a solution to the Jewish question. We
Want all foreign races out of German life,
We demand an end to the German parliament. We want a leader above the mob.
We demand death sentences for crimes against the people! To the gallows with the profiteers and money-lenders!”
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“...I began pulling out old pictures and yearbooks from our Los Angeles high schools and UC Berkeley. Suddenly there we were, thousands of trim-haired, neatly-dressed, conservative-looking youngsters, with perky, forced smiles, encased in identical inch by inch-and-a-quarter boxes for our children to snicker at. Only they did not snicker.
鈥淢om, this isn鈥檛 the 60s, is it?”
― A Time to Cast Away Stones
鈥淢om, this isn鈥檛 the 60s, is it?”
― A Time to Cast Away Stones

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”
― The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered
― The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.锘�”
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“Although aesthetically nugatory, "Beat Culture and the New America" was an exhibition of considerable significance -- but not in quite the way that Lisa Phillips, its curator, intended, Casting a retrospective glance at the sordid world of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence, Ferlinghetti, and other Beat icons, the exhibition unwittingly furnished a kind of pathologist's report on one of the most toxic cultural movements in American history.”
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the time comes to grant it nowadays, the radicals get screened out. That's its principal function. It's a very good system, really - keeps academic life at a decent level of tranquility.”
― A Tenured Professor
― A Tenured Professor

“X. and Z., very well educated and of radical views, married. In the evening they talked together pleasantly, then quarreled, then came to blows. In the morning both are ashamed and surprised, they think it must have been the result of some exceptional state of their nerves. Next night again a quarrel and blows. And so every night until at last they realize that they are not at all educated, but savage, just like the majority of people.”
― Notebook of Anton Chekhov
― Notebook of Anton Chekhov
“Only people who have a world-historical perspective can change history. The average person has only a domestic, ahistorical perspective. Look at social media. It鈥檚 full of people without a clue what鈥檚 going on. Immense historical forces have been unleashed all around them, and all they care about is posting their brain-dead, vacuous observations and their self-pitying, whining woe-is-me statements about how shitty their lives are and how no one understands them. As well as countless memes and selfies, of course. You just have to love those lolcats on skateboards, right, hoomans? They are forever trapped in their parochial little world of trivia. Why are our books so unsuccessful? It鈥檚 because they announce, with the volume of Stentor at Troy, a world-historic agenda, but we are surrounded by pygmies who stare at us like cows in line at the abattoir.”
― The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning
― The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning

“Edward Campbell Lowe was a radical in his blood and in his bones... his maternal grandfather had famously made a bonfire with a valuable portrait of the Marquess of Bute because, he had declared, it was more than a man could stomach to encounter a Tory every morning before breakfast.”
― Beautiful Lies
― Beautiful Lies

“The institutionalization of the Beat ethic has been a moral, aesthetic, and intellectual disaster of the first order. (It has also been a disaster for fashion and manners, but that is a separate subject.) We owe to the 1960s the ultimate institutionalization of immoralist radicalism: the institutionalization of drugs, pseudo-spirituality, promiscuous sex, virulent anti-Americanism, naive anti-capitalism, and the precipitous decline of artistic and intellectual standards. But the1960s and 1970s only codified and extended into the middle class the radical spirit of the Beats, who, in more normal times, would have remained what they were in the beginning; members of a fringe movement that provided stand-up comics with material.”
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

“The values of the Left come and go like fashion trends. Every 3rd generation tie-dye shirts, Socialism, and bell bottoms come back into fashion.”
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“Needless to say, the self-hatred of Western intellectuals is not genuine or sincere: they do not really want to beat our supermarkets into souks, as swords into ploughshares ... Rather, the intellectual's expression of self-hatred is directed at other Western intellectuals, to prove the self-hater's broadness of mind, moral superiority and lack of prejudice, and thus earn the approval of his peers. It isn't only rebellious youth who experience peer pressure...
Unfortunately, insincere ideas can become official orthodoxies, with very real consequences. The Muslims of this country are hardly to blame if they do not realise that the posturings of our intellectuals are just that, posturings, not intended to be taken literally. When the intellectuals of this country express no admiration for or appreciation of the cultural achievements of their civilisation's past, when only denigration and iconoclasm appear to advance an intellectual's career, when moral stature is measured by the vehemence of denunciation of past or present abuses, real or imagined, it is hardly surprising that Muslims conclude that the West is eminently hateful; it must be, because it hates itself. They haven't heard of Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess.”
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Unfortunately, insincere ideas can become official orthodoxies, with very real consequences. The Muslims of this country are hardly to blame if they do not realise that the posturings of our intellectuals are just that, posturings, not intended to be taken literally. When the intellectuals of this country express no admiration for or appreciation of the cultural achievements of their civilisation's past, when only denigration and iconoclasm appear to advance an intellectual's career, when moral stature is measured by the vehemence of denunciation of past or present abuses, real or imagined, it is hardly surprising that Muslims conclude that the West is eminently hateful; it must be, because it hates itself. They haven't heard of Marie Antoinette playing shepherdess.”
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“Egged on by leftist administrators and professors, radical students howl like wounded animals when exposed to any views outside the left-wing narrative.”
― Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America
― Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America
“You can be sure that the elite want to promote the liberal position as much as possible 鈥� because they can never be toppled by liberals. Liberals have been bred by the elite to be bland, banal, comfortable Last Men and Ignavi. The elite fear only the radicals 鈥� because the radicals are prepared to get their hands dirty. Why are there no statues of Robespierre? Because the elite despise him above all others, and they have succeeded in making the world ashamed of and disgusted by radicals. Like everything else, there are good radicals and bad radicals, but without radicals nothing ever changes. Why are the elite still in charge after destroying the world鈥檚 economy? Because they themselves are radicals (bad radicals), and they can never be toppled by weak liberals who鈥檇 rather go shopping than protesting.”
― Freedumb and Dumbocracy: Libertarians, Dogs, Goyim, the Internet, and Last Men
― Freedumb and Dumbocracy: Libertarians, Dogs, Goyim, the Internet, and Last Men
“The liberal Left will the ends but not the means, and that鈥檚 simply pathetic. The Left will win when it is extremely illiberal, when it no longer takes any shit, and doesn鈥檛 spend all of its time bending over backwards so as not to offend anyone. The only people who change the world are extremists and radicals, not liberals and 鈥渕ulticulturalists鈥� who always want to be liked. The people who make a difference are those who know they are going to be actively disliked.”
― The Liberty Wars: The Trump Time Bomb
― The Liberty Wars: The Trump Time Bomb

“Mindless radicalism has no place in a civilized society, what's needed is mindful radicalism.”
― Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
― Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Tocqueville admired this small group of so-called Radicals, which had no counterpart in France. Unlike the French, these English Radicals respected the principles of democratic rule, they were not trying to impose utopian systems on an unwilling society; they respected the right to property as the basis for civilized society, they saw the political necessity of religion, and they were well educated. Tocqueville felt at ease with them, perhaps because, like them, they combined elitist manners with reformist ambitions. He recognized in them the type of politician he wanted to become.”
― The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
― The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

“Thus did African American men at Ionia [Hospital] develop schizophrenia, not because of changes in their clinical presentations, but because of changes in the connections between their clinical presentations and larger, national conversations about race, violence, and insanity. And thus did the men develop schizophrenia not because of symptoms, but because of civil rights.”
― The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
― The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
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