Quotes About Extremism

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

They are embracing the kind of extremism personified in the past, in their different ways, by the likes of Joe McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, Strom

Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.

If you want to make your enemy into something you can hate, you first remove his humanity.... Had Ulrich said that at one point, or had that been something he'd heard during one of Solaris' speeches? It was true, whoever had said it, and the Chronicles had certainly tried to remove all vestige of humanity from these Heralds. Make them only icons. When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp—and hate.

It wasn't Islamic fundamentalists. We have our own fanatics right here at home.

The people who set off the bombs think it does. They think they're doing God's work." "That's a perversion of everything that Christianity stands for.

There is no cause so hopeless, no creed so mad, no idea so ludicrous that it will not attract some believers

Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible

All movements go too far.

The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

We, the FBI, don't investigate ideology, no matter how repugnant. When it turns to violence, we're all over it.

It's never a good sign when extremism becomes the norm.

There's significant movement as far to the left in our party as far as you can go, where people are trying to out-Bernie Bernie.

As someone who grew up between two cultures, I have been fascinated with the question of why men and women with similar backgrounds to mine were drawn towards radical messages of hate and violence.

We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.

When fundamentalism wins, the world enters a dark age.

What happened to the Republican Party is that slowly over half a century the kooks and weirdos and social misfits of a conservative ideology started discovering that they could force reasonable people to support unreasonable positions through fear.

Today the intellectual leaders of the Republican Party are the paranoids, kooks, know-nothings, and bigots who once could be heard only on late-night talk shows, the stations you listened to on long drives because it was hard to fall asleep while laughing. When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team.

Not many Americans know Myron Magnet or his work, but they know Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Alex Jones, Lou Dobbs, and an endless stream of professional nuts and cranks who roam the internet selling conspiracies, bitterness, grievance, and anger, in search of an argument.

The extremists had declared jihad against anyone and anything that challenged their vision of a pure Islamic society, and these artifacts - treatises about logic, astrology, and medicine, paeans to music, poems idealizing romantic love - represented five hundred years of human joy. They celebrated the sensual and the secular, and they bore the explicit message that humanity, as well as God, was capable of creating beauty. They were monumentally subversive.

la paranoia aguda se desarrolla muy deprisa entre los líderes fanáticos.

Si quiere saber qué pienso, se lo resumiré: aborrezco todos los «ismos»: comunismo, socialismo, nacionalismo, fascismo… En definitiva, todo lo que lleva el germen del totalitarismo.

ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.