Quotes About Extremism

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane—as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout—there may be no more potent

But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.

Religious zealots like bin Laden, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara,* and Dan Lafferty are common to every age, just as zealots of other stripes are.

Johnson said: "John Kennedy's death commands what his life conveyed—that America must move forward. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation's bloodstream.

As Goldwater would put it, capturing the conservative credo, "…extremism in defense of liberty—is—no—vice." (He added: "…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!")

No arguments you may use, no facts you may present, no logic you may array will in the slightest affect these people," the Kansas editor William Allen White, who opposed the Klan in an unsuccessful race for governor, wrote. "They have no capacity for receiving arguments, no minds for retaining or sifting facts and no mental processes that will hold logic. If they had any of these they would not be Kluxers.

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress—a period like our own.

Nationalism only allows for affirmations, and every doctrine that discards doubt, negation, is a form of fanaticism and stupidity.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

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Alle, der ser og maler en grøn himmel og en blå kornmark, burde steriliseres.

Mann, fick die juden - Hitler Probably

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.

Extreme law, extreme injustice.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.

When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.