A Quote by Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

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Entire Fringe Garment Like Lunatic Makes More Spanish Up

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Aldous Huxley
English - Writer
July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

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

I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.

Gary Johnson

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

Jill Stein

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

Leonard Baskin

I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?

Seth Gabel

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H. L. Mencken

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Doris Lessing

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.