Quotes About Extremism

People bitch like lunatics but are Nazis nonetheless.

Negotiations with religious fanatics who have delusions of grandeur generally do not go well.

Religious people are often the most violent.

Something like this could increase our membership tenfold. Nice, pure Aryan lad, with his whole future ahead of him, murdered by Paki immigrant scum. That'll turn a few fence-sitters in our direction.

Prévenir le terrorisme, et non pas attraper le terroriste une fois qu'il a commis l'acte, est sans aucun doute la tâche la plus difficile de toute contre-insurrection.

In fact, however, Kathy Boudin and her comrades were deliberately building an anti-personnel bomb filled with nails, intending to detonate it at a social dance at Fort Dix. The dance would be attended by 18-year-old draftees and their dates.

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism ... .

For two hundred years the radical left has believed in a religion promising a heaven on earth whose end justifies any means. That is why progressives like Lenin and Stalin and Pol Pot killed so many innocent people.

An Evangelical who thinks the world is ending is called a religious fanatic; a liberal who thinks so is called an environmentalist."—Dennis Prager * Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind.

the very first thing that happens with any zealot is that he removes his brain just in case any thoughts that might challenge his zealotry should happen to stray into it.

ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was an organization of global reach.

Governmental disorder and 'cumulative radicalization' were two sides of the same coin.

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.

What makes sense in the ivy-covered ivory tower may be shrill extremism in America's neighborhoods and workplaces.

There is a difference, Mr. President, between Christian extremism and Muslim extremism. Christian extremism was in the 1400s. Muslim extremism was Wednesday.