Quotes About Extremism

Earlier that day, former president George W. Bush, who had remained largely silent during Trump's presidency, condemned domestic "extremism" and the "malign forces" in the country. "So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment," he said in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where one of four hijacked planes had crashed into a field on September 11. He never mentioned Trump directly.

the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

but up in the northwest, have been talking to a hard-right

and a member of a neo-Nazi party and

Why, they're the dirtiest guys in any town. They're the same ones that burned the houses of old German people during the war. They're the same ones that lynch Negroes. They like to be cruel. They like to hurt people, and they always give it a nice name, patriotism or protecting the constitution.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

George Mason professor Tim Groseclose argues that another effect [of a liberal media] is the "extremism-redefined principle," in which "the terms 'mainstream' and 'extreme' take on new meaning within the group. When the group is, say, very liberal, mainstream Democratic positions begin to be considered centrist, and positions that would normally be considered extremely left-wing become common place.

By the time of Santokh Singh's death Bhindranwale's men were known to have killed two policemen and ten civilians, attempted to murder a senior civil servant and planted a bomb in the office of a deputy inspector-general of police. There had been several other bomb explosions and attempts to derail trains, one successful. An airliner had been hijacked

I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.