“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”
“This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.”
“If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.”
“Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.”
“Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.”