Quotes About Extremism

There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist.

You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that's a dream of theirs, to go into Italy.

The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, the glorification of terror, and the total destruction of Israel.

I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi Arabia. I think Osama bin Laden really wants to topple that regime and have his people move in, but that's a whole other story.

When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.

The charge I myself should bring against the German people is that of over indulgence in patriotism. Out of it have grown most of their follies.

Too far, Mrs. Jones! You go too far! You go too far confusing the cause of labor with that of socialism

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.

I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

Those who make their patriotism a vehicle for intolerance are very dangerous.

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

En employant des moyens extrêmes, il est effectivement possible de détruire le contrat social jusqu'à la base, et d'obtenir de la part des hommes des réactions purement animales.

When 'all is permitted' in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist. Furthermore, all the terrorists in the world think they are counter-terrorists, merely responding to a prior act of terror. They are not the only ones: it is always possible, and easy, to find a prior violence that supposedly justifies our present violence. But, on this way of reckoning, war will never end.

When 'all is permitted' in the fight against terror, a counter-terrorist starts to become indistinguishable from the initial terrorist.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

It is the indignity of being treated as disposable that pushes people towards religious fundamentalism in order to retrieve a sense of self, of meaning, of significance. This is why globalization breeds religious fundamentalism and free markets create terrorism and extremism, not democracy.

Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

since 9/11 the FBI has instigated more jihadist terrorist "plots" in the States than al-Qaeda or any of its affiliated groups—thirty versus ten. Undercover

They loved and reviled Hitler like no other twentieth-century politician.