Quotes About Extremism

Reductio ad Hitlerum." Claire couldn't stop quoting Paul. "It's when you compare someone to Hitler to win an argument.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.

A terrorist is the most foolish and naïve. He is drunk with fixed false beliefs that killing his neighbors will result in going to heaven.

FRACTURED FACTIONSMany cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.