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Quotes About Extremism

A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.
~ Ben Bova
It's far more common for leftists to routinely pick up weapons and try to kill those with whom they disagree than it is for those on the other side of the ideological spectrum.
~ Ben Shapiro
All that will be left are polarized groups, seeking their own interests.
~ Ben Shapiro
Turkey's leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that the very term "moderate Islam" is "very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it." Turkey's refusal to fight ISIS has led to the rise of that terror group as well.
~ Ben Shapiro
The Weathermen eventually became the Weathermen Underground, bombing police stations, the Pentagon, the homes of private citizens—all while decrying America. "We're against everything that's 'good and decent' in honky America," said Jacobs. "We will burn and loot and destroy.
~ Ben Shapiro
Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews, and Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, 'If you expel them, they'll all come here.' -- 'So what should I do with them?' Hitler asked the mufti, who responded: 'Burn them.'.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.
~ Arthur Hertzberg
Somebody made the point with regard to President Obama that, because he tried to do so much so fast, so extreme on health care, on energy, just run down the list, he went to... the fringe elements of his party to satisfy their demands.
~ Scott Garrett
The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.
~ Shari Arison
If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.
~ Michael T. Flynn
ISIS hates the West as an abominable nest of infidels - infidels who reject the Quran and Shariah Law and so must be annihilated. We are the obstacle to the new Caliphate.
~ Tom Tancredo
In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.
~ Glen Cook
Perhaps I should have seen that fanatic gleam, the quick response to a phrase, the magic sound of figures: Fifth Column, Third Force, Seventh Day. I might have saved us all a lot of trouble . . .
~ Graham Greene
treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.
~ Greg Iles
Fanatics,' Didier mused, ignoring the rebuke, 'always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fanaticism means that if you're not against me, you're against me.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fanatics, of all kinds, all have the same scrubbed and staring look about them, the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.
~ Richard Holbrooke
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
~ Martin Filler
Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat.
~ Jose Rodriguez
Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.
~ George Takei
I think we should be very worried because, with technology, Boko Haram and other terrorists have become very mobile in all continents, not only in Africa but also in Europe, America, and Asia.
~ Muhammadu Buhari