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Quotes About Extremism

It was as though they wanted to say: Look how tolerant and liberal we are! This African is just like one of us! He has married a daughter of ours and works with us on an equal footing! If only you knew, this sort of European is no less evil than the madmen who believe in the supremacy of the white man in South Africa and in the southern states of America. The same exaggerated emotional energy bears either to the extreme right or to the extreme left.
~ Tayeb Salih
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
~ Sam Harris
There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.
~ Douglas Murray
The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.
~ Noam Chomsky
The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
~ Noam Chomsky
Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
~ Patrick Chappatte
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
~ Voltaire
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.
~ Winston Churchill
she could not be surprised, let alone outraged, by anything the jihadists did. This, she reckoned, must be the story of all radical groups, be they Taliban, Shining Path, or National Socialist. Once they had left common notions of decency in the dust—once they had abandoned all sense of proportionality—then it turned into a sort of competition to see who could outdo all the rest in that. Beyond there it was all comedy, if only you could turn a blind eye to the consequences.
~ Neal Stephenson
Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores
~ Neal Stephenson
if any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn't work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because you'll probably do a neater job of it than the Fascists will.
~ Neal Stephenson
It was black, the proper color for domestic terrorism during the evening hours
~ Neal Stephenson
It's no secret that people will give their lives, or take the lives of others, in support of what they believe. Often the less actual evidence that exists in support of an ideology, the more likely a person is willing to die for the cause.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Often the less actual evidence that exists in support of an ideology, the more likely a person is willing to die for the cause.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sería más acertado hablar de «nihilismo islámico», o quizá «bolchevismo islámico», pues no debemos olvidar que en sus primeros años Lenin y Stalin fueron también terroristas. En
~ Niall Ferguson
Trump campaign's involvement with the alt-right brought anti-Semitism back
~ Niall Ferguson
Fascism is very much a mob movement.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
~ Hamid Karzai
There are many Muslims of good will and despise this extremism as much as anyone of any other faith.
~ Mike Pompeo
This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.
~ Mona Eltahawy
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
~ Joichi Ito
We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.
~ Ron DeSantis