Quotes About Extremism

Let's close all the Islamist mosques.

We have to go into fundamentalist mosques; we have to stop foreign financing of Islamist groups.

According to an official document of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, right-wing extremists include "groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration." It also includes those "rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

and the real problem was that not all that many people truly wanted to die before turning thirty. And those who did used bombs.

They've never held a job, power, or a girl's hand - The appeal for men to join ISIS, November, 2015.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of good and evil usually is the maniac with the revolver.

Feeling loquacious now, Switters might have gone on to offer his theory on suicide bombers, to wit: Islamic terrorist groups were successful in attracting volunteer martyrs because the young men got to strap explosives on themselves and blast valuable public property to smithereens. Exhilarating boom-boom power. If they were required to martyr themselves by being dragged behind a bus or sticking a wet finger in a light socket, volunteers would be few and far between.

triple evils of modernity: Nazism, Communism and 'Americanism'.

However, for Keynes it had become self-evident that the best defense against political extremism and economic collapse was an increased role for the state, including but not confined to countercyclical economic intervention.

if politi-cians—however well-intentioned—were barred from planning, manipulating, or directing the affairs of their fellow citizens, then extremists of Right and Left alike would be kept at bay.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grouping.

Enzo Traverso distingue cuatro conceptos confundidos en el debate político actual: populismo, fascismo, neofascismo y posfascismo, reservando el último para caracterizar a las derechas extremas del siglo XXI.

Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.

People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.

Without someone to set the pendulum's swing, we wouldn't know where to find the middle. None of us in the business of making changes gets everything we want, the extremists allow us to look like moderates and to go after changes that will make a difference.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.