Quotes About Extremism

Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary violence against others.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

Only ideals are dangerous.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Summum ius summa iniuria [Extreme justice is extreme injustice].

It is important that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world.

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.

If al-Qaeda had not had a home in Afghanistan, maybe 9/11 would never have taken place. God forbid if al-Qaeda gets another strong foothold in Afghanistan.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

The extremists wanted to divide France; it came together.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.