Quotes About Extremism

Nuts didn't need religion to make them nuts, Allison had long since decided, but it did seem to give them a certain added sense of commitment to whatever goals their nutdom decided to embrace.

the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

Britain faces an even worse crisis, with more of its Muslim young men volunteering to fight for ISIS than volunteering to serve in their own country's armed forces.

It was the video no one wanted to see, that few people could bear to watch. A young American, James Foley, was on his knees next to a masked, black-clad jihadist. The jihadist was holding a knife. Foley began reciting a prepared text—delivered under the ultimate duress—condemning America. When he finished, he visibly braced himself. We all knew what was coming.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

avec ses lourdes pertes humaines, est de toutes les civilisations et de tous les temps. Les religions elles-mêmes sont souvent à l'origine de ces tueries que pourtant elles dénoncent, comme il en fut jadis au temps des croisades et des guerres de Religion, voire, aujourd'hui, de l'islamisme extrême. C'est qu'entre-temps les hommes, poussés par l'immémorial instinct de pouvoir, se sont approprié le fait religieux et en ont fait leur affaire. Au

Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme, aujourd'hui dans les intégrismes religieux, abolissant tout esprit critique et alimentant le fanatisme. Le pire devient alors possible. Particulièrement réticents à l'embrigadement, les jeunes devraient, par chance, nous éviter la réédition de pareilles horreurs.

enthousiasmes militants qui, portés aux extrêmes, entraînent une abnégation absolue pour la Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme,

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

A suicide bomber detonated a massive bomb outside a café in Jerusalem this afternoon. Eleven Israelis were killed. Four of them were secondary-school students, relaxing after their exams. The bomber has not been named.

Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

growth is limited by their fanaticism. They belong mostly to the

en este puto país ya se sabe que nunca podemos tener un término medio. Aquí, o la revolución o el convento, no hay más cáscaras.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

Terrorists are trained in Syria, and weapons come from Iran and Syria, and I believe that's something that should be stopped.

Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.