Quotes About Extremism

that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.'

the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name.

The slash-and-burn politics he brought to the Capitol made it ungovernable, and the zealots he brought into the Republican Party had no wish to govern. It has been that way ever since.

Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists

A Bible-quoting group of killers. I don't like it

It was a short step from the liberal Christ-the-highest-in-humanity to the Nazi Superman.

He was now convinced that Hitler had brought the movement to a dead end. The more radical followers were going over to the Communists.

It was at this time that he published an open letter to a Communist leader assuring him that Nazism and Communism were really the same thing.

As well as being a fascist, he's just not very clever

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

like Stalin, Franco pursued an intransigent political idea of "purifying" state and domestic order with extreme levels of brutality and coercion.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

We, the most powerful democracy in the world, have developed a strong norm against talking about politics. It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme. We say what our friends want to hear, and hear very little beyond what our friends say.

What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their "excessive" lifestyle.

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

Nothing is more powerful than hearing from former members of the group that ISIS is not creating an Islamist utopia in the areas it controls, but a hell on earth.