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Quotes About Extremism

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Extremism is the root of all conflict, those who wish to be at peace, follow the middle path of compassion and love for all.
~ Unknown
The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.
~ Unknown
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgment from my brain when I get my head set on something. Everything is done at all costs. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense, pretty much.
~ Marya Hornbacher
In the modern Republican Party, making sense is a secondary consideration. Years of relentless propaganda combined with extreme frustration over the disastrous Bush years and two terms of a Kenyan Muslim terrorist president have cast the party's right wing into a swirling suckhole of paranoia and conspiratorial craziness. There is nothing you can do to go too far, a fact proved, if not exactly understood, by the madman, Trump. Huckabee
~ Matt Taibbi
Every bad habit of the Right was on display in the Capitol riot that left five dead, $30 million in damage, close to three hundred arrested, and Capitol Hill an armed camp.
~ Matthew Continetti
Populism is the radical opposite of conservatism,
~ Matthew Continetti
Diez mil nacionalistas contrarios a los Estados Unidos y la democracia, y partidarios de los nazis, marcharon por la avenida Santa Fe, gritando desafiantemente: '¡Muerte a los cerdos ingleses!','Muerte a los judíos!' y '¡Neutralidad y Castillo!'".
~ Unknown
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
~ Mercedes Lackey
It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.
~ Michael L. Brown
Close your eyes & imagine a world full of self-replicating little Stalins. Now open your eyes. You live in that world. It's called social justice & the little Stalins are SJWs. SJW = Stalin, Just Weirder.
~ Unknown
This is not to minimize the emotional undercurrent of mindless bigotry, but merely to suggest that if you sincerely (however wrongly) believe that X is responsible for the ruination of all and everything that you hold dear, stamping out X follows like night follows day.
~ Michael Shermer
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day" (Quran 9:29), kill
~ Unknown
using the same logic it uses to determine racist and other extremist groups: the FRC promotes defamation and promulgates known falsehoods.
~ Unknown
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
~ Michelle Malkin
Men i Herrens sted plasserte han seg selv. Og det var den verste formen for læstadianisme, den kaldeste, den mest nådeløse. Læstadianismen uten Gud.
~ Unknown
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
~ Unknown
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
~ Milton R. Sapirstein
Hansu had said that the leftists were "a bunch of whiners" and the rightists were "plain stupid.
~ Min Jin Lee
Regional separatism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant campaigns, and religious fundamentalisms all stand to benefit from the decay of power.
~ Moisés Naím
Hugo se ocupa de encolerizar a sus seguidores y de demonizar a sus opositores, a quienes no trata como rivales políticos, sino como enemigos mortales que no tienen derecho a existir.
~ Moisés Naím
Fanaticism is the shortest path to ignorance.
~ Unknown