Quotes About Extremism

hombre que se jacta de conocer la voluntad de Dios y está dispuesto a cumplirla a toda costa es el hombre más peligroso del mundo».

This was the kind of thing Oswald Mosley and his British Fascists wanted—a country in which the rule of law was replaced by bullying and beating.

Fascists. They're both evil.

El hombre que se jacta de conocer la voluntad de Dios y está dispuesto a cumplirla a toda costa es el hombre más peligroso del mundo».

Es cierto. Si algo he aprendido en España es que tenemos que combatir a los comunistas tanto como a los fascistas. Son perversos, los unos y los otros.

El hombre que se jacta de conocer la voluntad de Dios y está dispuesto a cumplirla a toda costa es el hombre más peligroso del mundo.

Los verdaderos fascistas quieren aniquilar a todos sus enemigos y luego crear una sociedad radicalmente nueva.

People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

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.

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.

The powers that be use the press to give the devil an angelic image and give the image of the devil to the one who's really angelic. They make oppression and exploitation and war actually look like an act of humanitarianism. This is not the kind of extremism that I support or that I go along with.

I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

No wonder religious fundamentalism and extreme right-wing nationalism simultaneously reappear.

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.

And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

Meanwhile, people relinquish their rights readily and eagerly in a quest for peace with religious fanatics that will never be realized.

Kennedy then warned of "the siren temptation of those with seemingly swift and easy answers on the far right and the far left." It

Day after day, for more than seven weeks, the audience heard lurid stories of wild sex, biblical rantings, beaten babies, and armed fanatics ready to fight and die for their crazy notions of heaven and hell at the command of a madman.

Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions