Quotes About Extremism

Anything I can do to help destroy ISIS, I will support that.

I want to see ISIS destroyed.

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.

ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.

With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the 'Jewish conspiracy' - which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

He concluded, "While there may have been extremist groups who grasped the opportunity to exploit the violence…to state that the riots were Communist or otherwise inspired appears to me to be a lame excuse to salve the consciences of those who do not want to, or refuse to, face the conditions that precipitated this disaster and similar ones in other great cities of our nation: rat-infested slums, unemployment, poverty, hopelessness, frustration, and despair.

There are no longer moderates. There's no longer a center. There's either authoritarian populism (Trump) or democratic populism (represented in 2016 by Bernie's "political revolution").

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Of course, the Nazi movement was unique in terms of its killing machines and its policy of rounding up millions of people in order to systematically murder them. Nonetheless, the Nazi form of cultism has close resemblances to that of other political and religious groups, and leaves no doubt about cultist capacities for infinite murderousness.

Extremism in defense of virtue is no vice.

This is how terrorists get started, this kind of harmless fun.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

The logic of nationalism always flows downhill, toward the gutter.

The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a properly anarchist solution. I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think and consider some of these admittedly extreme little elements, which nevertheless do recur fairly regularly throughout human history.

It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

My life's mission is to unmask the Jews.

You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

There's a fine line between piety and wack-ass obsession, and people have been landing on the wrong side for thousands of years.

Nothing is quite so dangerous as a religious fanatic who thinks he's doing the Lord's will.