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Quotes About Extremism

Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad.
~ Peter Bergen
You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.
~ Michael Steele
The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.
~ Greg Gutfeld
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.
~ Ted Cruz
You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.
~ Jerry Vlasak
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.
~ Michael Bloomberg
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
~ Lindsey Graham
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
~ Pierre Salinger
Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.
~ George W. Bush
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~ Denis Diderot
I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.
~ Haj Amin al-Husseini
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
~ Joseph Goebbels
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
~ Brendan Behan
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.
~ Howard Zinn
When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.
~ Hosni Mubarak
Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.
~ Marine Le Pen
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
~ Glenn Greenwald
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.
~ David Cross
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
~ H. L. Mencken
We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.
~ Barack Obama
I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.
~ Roger Stone
The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!
~ George Carlin
Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.
~ Vito Fossella