Quotes About Extremism

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

The most extreme among the Brexiters are convinced they can ride the chaos and deploy the 'shock doctrine' to remake the nation in their ideological image.

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

People who truly represent an extreme on either side have a very difficult time getting bipartisan support for what they're doing.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

Those who pursue the ideology of Isil are not children - they are responsible for their own actions, driven by their own ideology.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

If I could push a button and get rid of all these dumb people flying Nazi flags and have them never show up - They are a big problem for the Right.

Our culture is being shaped by trolls and the Holocaust deniers are a very extreme example of the trolls. Ignoring them has not worked. It doesn't mean that confronting them will work completely but I think it's a debate we have to have.

It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

The Democrats want to destroy the country immediately.

Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks like. I was a fundamentalist in high school.

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

There are few catastrophes so great and irremediable as those that follow an excess of zeal.

Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.