Quotes About Extremism

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

My feeling is that the most dangerous people are always those who take a hardline position - and nothing inspires that sort of extremism like difference.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism

la pizzeria Sbarro, dove fra gli altri una famiglia di cinque persone, dalla mamma al più piccino, fu sbranata dalla bomba indossata da una donna poi esaltata come grande eroina, madre e terrorista;

Historically, polarization and populism--and their close traveling companions, extremism and authoritarianism--emerge from the politics of cultural despair.

La estereotipación del pensamiento conforta y consuela. El extremista afán de lucir como hombre moderado, arbitrador de divergencias, como personalidad agradable a toda costa, cohíbe e inhibe la curiosidad mental; hacerse solidario de la opinión pública da sensación de seguridad.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.

Religion and religious hatred are one of the best ways for thickening darkness. - Book of Consolation, 5.9

Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

I have observed that religion is not restraining in a moral see. Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Perhaps the loneliest time was during the Tata Tea issue in Assam. For some reason, everyone believed that we had conspired with the extremists, ULFA. People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth. Sometimes it is based on inadequate or wrong information.

In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far.

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

I still don't understand why they want to kill us all. Even if all of that is true, it doesn't make any sense to me." "It's because they define pagan as anyone who doesn't practice Islam. And, according to certain passages in the Koran, all pagans have to be converted or killed.