Extremism Quotes

Extremism Quote of the day

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there.