Quotes About Extremism

El propio Mao respondió así a las quejas por el alcance de aquella violencia: «Ese hombre, Hitler, era todavía más atroz. Cuanto más atroz, mejor, ¿no crees? Cuanta más gente matas, más revolucionario eres».

The only way we can eradicate human behavior is to eradicate humans, and that strikes me as pretty extreme.

Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that's exactly how it should be.

People who believe themselves to be True patriots tend to be zealots. Zealots, in my opinion are one short step from being lunatics.

Because in my experience, patriotism, while a fine quality, can fuel quite a dangerous agenda if taken to the extreme.

This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Prior to Y.P.W.c.'s Freedom of Speculation Act, credible sociohistorical data on the origins and evolution of Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents from obscure, adolescent, nihilistic Root Cult to one of the most feared cells in the annals of Canadian extremism was regrettably patchy and dependent on the hearsay of sources whose scholarly veracity was of an integrity somewhat less than unimpeachable.

The American Conversation is an argument, after all, and way worse than our fear of error or anarchy or Gomorrahl decadence is our fear of theocracy or autocracy or any ideology whose project is not to argue or persuade but to adjourn the whole debate sine die. It's this logic (and perhaps this alone) that keeps protofascism or royalism or Maoism or any sort of really dire extremism from achieving mainstream legitimacy in US politics

I know bashing, Pat, and this was unabashed bashing at its most fascist.

fringes in Alberta weren't too pleased, but not much pleases an Albertan far-rightist anyway.

As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.

Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Not all the young women recruited to holy war had their feet caned by the moral police. There were those who held the canes.

Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left. (Interview, Time Magazine , February 20, 2005)

Übertreibung und Maßlosigkeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus diskreditiert den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus.

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.