Quotes About Extremism

a significant percentage of the world's Muslims believe that the men who brought down the World Trade Center are now seated at the right hand of God

Most Muslims who commit atrocities are explicit about their desire to get to paradise.

The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy.

Life under the Taliban is, to a first approximation, what millions of Muslims around the world want to impose on the rest of us. They long to establish a society in which—when times are good—women will remain vanquished and invisible, and anyone given to spiritual, intellectual, or sexual freedom will be slaughtered before crowds of sullen, uneducated men.

Oh, if only that was the last time in America that the extreme left and extreme right broke down and made a mess of things, leaving everyone in the center to suffer.

I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me, no. I've had all the monstrosity I want.

Fitness was not his cup of tea. He treated his body like a vehicle - a motorbike that he raced at top speed along the rim of the Grand Canyon.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

Who needs death metal when you've got the Nazis?" They passed

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

Theodore became a hermit, lived for two years in a cave, and then for a time inhabited an iron cage. (This sort of flamboyant asceticism was common in the Christian East.)

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

The morally, religiously ill, and narrow-minded people and extremists neither see nor understand the depth and the myth of any subject that leads towards the concept of the welfare of all humans. Such people are suspicious of themselves and are poison for society and its inhabitants. Keep away from and reject them; it means your way of wisdom is secure to live in peace and harmony.

Kill them all. God will recognize his own.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between an ordinary Bernie Sanders supporter and a Stalinist revolutionary, or between Donald Trump's average voter and a Nazi, is either willfully ignorant or needs to get out of the house more.

A Middle Way shunned both ascetic extremism and sensuous indulgence, because both are attachments and thus lead to dissatisfaction. At the moment of this realization, Siddhartha became the Buddha.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

The '90s came, and then the 2000s, and we saw radical corporate interest extremism, we've seen the disparity between rich and poor just get bigger, with globalisation and the corporate agenda on the rise ever since.