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Quotes About Extremism

It is the RSS and the BJP that have always initiated political violence in our midst; not just in Kerala, but in the entire country.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
Military force can't defeat ideology.
~ Anne Applebaum
Don't let anybody fool you who says Islam can be moderated. It will not be moderated in a million years.
~ Geert Wilders
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
~ Thomas Sowell
Some of his extreme positions, such as the idea that homosexuals, blasphemers, adulterers, incorrigible teenagers, and practitioners of "witchcraft" are all worthy of the death penalty, have been loudly repudiated by many conservative religious leaders.
~ Katherine Stewart
Extremists who believe that the federal government deliberately murdered people at Ruby Ridge and Waco, and that door-to-door gun confiscation could begin any day.
~ Kathy Reichs
Sometimes we must fight terror with tyranny.
~ bush george w iii
Like slavery and piracy, terrorism has no place in the modern world.
~ bush george w iv
These people are dangerous because they think they are doing this because a god wants them to do it. It means they don't have to think like humans
~ C.A. Fletcher
But you were wrong; given the right circumstances fascism can infest any country, feeding off the hatreds and nationalisms that already exist. Nobody is safe.' 'I know.
~ C.J. Sansom
Religious fanatics are the worst. They're basically impossible to bargain with, they accept no outside opinion about anything, and they departed from reality well before you met them.
~ Gene Doucette
Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Terrorism is an act of violence whose primary purpose is to create fear and, through that, a political result.
~ George Friedman
Their first option is murder, their second option is murder and if that fails they go straight to murder.
~ Ilona Andrews
If one Hitler is dead, there are a million ready to take his place.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
pero cualquiera con fanatismo, poder e impunidad puede transformarse en una bestia
~ Isabel Allende
Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c'è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un'aberrazione in un paese dove i cambiamenti si possono ottenere con votazioni popolari.
~ Isabel Allende
We must have the approach of 'zero tolerance' against any type of terrorism.
~ Rajnath Singh
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.
~ Nick Clegg
I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.
~ Ted Olson
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
~ Mason Cooley
Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things, who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything, and I will show you someone who is insecure.
~ G. Aiken Taylor
What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.
~ Richard Engel