Quotes About Extremism

The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've been living in a bubble.

Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.

Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can always be relied upon to do.

Perfectionists and zealots can break but not bend; in my experience they are subject to burnout from diminishing returns or else, to borrow Santayana's definition of the fanatic, they redouble their efforts just when they have lost sight of their ends.

it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity

The nineteen suicide murderers of New York and Washington and Pennsylvania were beyond any doubt the most sincere believers on those planes. Perhaps we can hear a little less about how 'people of faith' possess moral advantages that others can only envy.

There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.

It's a note. Let me read it for you. 'Couldn't anyone else see that they were all slaves of Satan? I had to cleanse the world of their evil. I am the hand of God. Why else would security have let me into the building with an assault rifle in my suitcase? I am a divine instrument.'" Tommy paused and looked up. "That's all I have so far, but I'll guess I end it with an apology to my mom. What do you think?

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.' George Bernard Shaw

Both her mom and dad were so right wing they were like one-winged birds forever flapping in circles.

What the conservatives conceived of as sufficient measures overlapped with what were for the Nazis scarcely the first steps.

Gli uomini non fanno mai il male così completamente ed entusiasticamente come quando lo fanno per convinzione religiosa.

Deccal dindarl???n kendisinden, a??r? Tanr? ya da gerçek sevgisinden doÄŸabilir; t?pk? bir sapk?n?n bir azizden, bir cinçarpm???n bir yalvaçtan doÄŸmas? gibi.

The Rightists called themselves America Firsters, and their opponents called them Fascists; the Leftists called themselves Liberals, and their opponents called them Reds.

The Fascist groups were becoming more and more active, and were resorting to gangsterism, as in all the countries bordering on Italy and Germany. They were provided with funds not only from French capitalist sources, but also from abroad.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

In other words, America was founded by a nutty religious cult.

people who bought a copy of Islam for Dummies on their way to join ISIS.

That also doesn't mean that your mind should be closed to other religions. You can study any religion; you can check it out. The problem is that when you choose one particular religion, you get too extreme about its ideas and then put other religions and philosophies down. This happens because you don't know the purpose of religion, why it exists or how to practice. If you did, you'd never feel insecure about other religions.

What the extremists were doing was entirely contrary to the Koran, which excoriates anyone who impugns a woman's reputation and sentences them to eighty lashes.

it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists…same old, same old. It seems to me the book, at this point, bears witness to all that.

The opponents of female suffrage lamented that woman's emancipation would mean the end of marriage, morality and the state; their extremism was more clear-sighted than the woolly benevolence of liberals and humanists, who thought that giving women a measure of freedom would not upset anything. When we reap the harvest which the unwitting suffragettes sowed we shall see that the anti-feminists were after all right.