Quotes About Extremism

The worst crimes are committed out of enthusiasm, a morbid state responsible for almost all public and private disasters.

There are two different kinds of terrorists. I think what happened in Las Vegas or in Texas shows we need to expand our definition of terrorism. In my mind these are incidents of terrorism, just as what happened in New York to those bikers. If the act is designed to kill people and instill fear in people's hearts it is terrorism.

Faith that denies fact is fanaticism

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And… moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism: countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

No sentimentality, comrade...The only good human being is a dead one.

Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too.

When a confrontation occurs, people rush toward it, to film it and stoke it, in the hope that someone on the other side will fly off the handle and do something extreme, and thereby incontrovertibly discredit his side of the argument. This river-and-shore arrangement advantages the Trump supporters: they can walk coolly past, playing the offended party, refusing to engage.

We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.

We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us.

Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should allow guns in day care centers, but they're protecting themselves by not allowing guns in their workplace, that would be in that category of lunatics.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

What we need to do is we need to come to grips with this cancerous form of the Islamic religion that is breaking down the Arab world order, and that is very clear.