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Quotes About Radicalism

The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Maar zelfs tussen betrouwbare mensen verveelde ik me steeds meer bij de onvruchtbaarheid van de eeuwige discussies en de zelfverkozen verzuiling in radicale, liberale, anarchistische, bolsjewistische en onpolitieke groepen; voor het eerste leerde ik werkelijk het eeuwige type van de professionele revolutionair waarnemen, die zich door zijn oppositionele positie boven zijn onbeduidendheid uitgetild voelt en zich vastklampt aan het dogmatische omdat hij in zichzelf geen houvast heeft.
~ Stefan Zweig
Radical Islam cannot be accommodated. It cannot be appeased.
~ Bob Woodward
Businessmen warned that idleness breeds mischief and-even worse-radicalism.
~ Juliet B. Schor
Sê o que os progressistas chamam de extremista.
~ Julius Evola
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Islamic fundamentalism is attacking us at home.
~ Marine Le Pen
America must keep jihad out, especially when we know exactly where it is coming from.
~ Katie Pavlich
the Islamicization of radicalism—that is, a process that draws from the same alienation that drove earlier generations of extremists, whether nationalists such as Paul de Lagarde or Communists such as Leon Trotsky.
~ Francis Fukuyama
Radicalism is the party of the spirit whose ideas erect signposts to eternity and, in every situation, remind the conscience of the future. It scorns the conditioned and limited, small things and steps, restraint, discretion, and unconsciousness. It is joyful, but only towards what is great; it is reverent, but only towards what is powerful. It is pure and, therefore, self-righteous; principled and, therefore, repressive; fanatical and, therefore, destructive.
~ Helmuth Plessner
When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.
~ Condoleezza Rice
Muslim extremists and their gunmen, of what could be called the Koran Kalashnikov Klan (KKK), as fanatical as white supremacists in the Ku Klux Klan, are seen as a mortal danger.
~ Stephen O. Hughes
The Taliban kept spinning off in new and bizarre directions, however. On March 1 the movement announced its intention to destroy all the statues in Afghanistan that depicted human form.
~ Steve Coll
Hay ideas que son como un atentado.
~ Milan Kundera
The Church, like the monarchy, was a valuable bastion of defense against the dangerous alliance of atheistical philosophy with political radicalism. The Bible taught the poorer orders that their lowly path had been allotted to them by the hand of God, and the Church was there to make quite certain they understood that.
~ C.S. Harris
Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
~ Terence McKenna
Americans just don't realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.
~ Brigitte Gabriel
The radical Islamic movement has availed itself of the PC mentality to convince good-hearted people around the world that the Jews, Israel, and the 'fascist government of the United States of America' are responsible for the ills of the Muslim people, and that their daily suffering is because of them. The PC crowds label anyone who disagrees with this notion a bigot. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and the like have picked up on this phenomenon.
~ Brigitte Gabriel
Anyone who disagrees with radical Islamic propaganda is being attacked in the media, on college campuses, and at rallies countering events that promote the Islamic cause
~ Brigitte Gabriel
When Amelia Bloomer in 1851 suggested in her feminist publication that women wear a kind of short skirt and pants, to free themselves from the encumbrances of traditional dress, this was attacked in the popular women's literature. One story has a girl admiring the "bloomer" costume, but her professor admonishes her that they are "only one of the many manifestations of that wild spirit of socialism and agrarian radicalism which is at present so rife in our land.
~ Howard Zinn
For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.
~ Deeyah Khan
So, I was born and raised the youngest of seven children on this really beautiful mountain in Southern Idaho. But my dad had some radical beliefs. And because of those beliefs, we were isolated. So I was never allowed to go to school or to the doctor.
~ Tara Westover
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
~ John Blair
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
~ Gustav Stresemann