A Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Among Any Apt Forward Forward Movement Fringe Lunatic Movement

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Theodore Roosevelt
American - President
October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to improve things - we don't have to accept the debasement of civil discourse or civic decline. We can take steps to ensure that the lunatic fringe remains on the fringe and stops bleeding into the base and then poisoning the mainstream

John Avlon

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

Aldous Huxley

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

Mark Shields

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H. L. Mencken

I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

Jack Welch

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

Holly Near

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

Jill Stein

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

Jack Welch

The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

Jean Louis

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Joel Salatin

Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The trouble is that, with all popular movements, the lunatic fringe so quickly ceases to be a fringe; the tail begins to wag the dog. For every woman or man who is quietly and sensibly using the idea to examine our assumptions, there are twenty rabble-rousers whose real motive is desire for power over others. The fact that they see themselves as antiracists or feminists or whatever does not make them any less rabble-rousers.