Quotes About Extremism

Self-love is selfish in itself. Not any different from becoming a narcissist when you take it to the extremist.

Libertins et talibans c'est blanc bonnet et bonnet blanc à cet égard : les premiers veulent l'érotisme sans la procréation, et les seconds la procréation sans l'érotisme ; dans les deux cas, ce qui coince c'est la mère qui s'envoie en l'air !

Barry Goldwater famously argued that extremism in the defense of liberty was no vice. Our story will show that it is.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Is it possible to be so blinded by your own doctrine that you would actually take human life in God's name and think you are doing Him a service?

Spiritual yearnings are natural to many people, and may give them solace or hope, but extremists of any stripe are not content with faith as armor; they must forge it into a sword.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

they worry about Western racists, who use Muhammad's marriage to Aisha to taunt ethnic minorities. But it is as important to worry about religious extremists who use the arguments for male supremacy, homophobia and the exploitation of women and children in holy books to justify oppression – and to notice that there is not a great deal of difference between the ideologies of the religious and the racial extremists.

Every individual with "ideals" is a potential murderer.

The terrorist is the liberal's grandchild.

Later, once they had returned to Boston and gained some perspective, she would see that this was part and parcel of extremist thought the world over: the heaping on of selective trivia that only a computer could fact-check in real time, the raw accumulation of unverifiable anecdote that could create a new reality.

Les djihadistes ont massacré les innocents et entendent désormais tuer l'amour.

Fanatyzm potrafi uskrzydli? os?y

If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.

True capitalism can seem a lot like Nazism.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

If the end of tension is what you want, fascism is the thing for you.

Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.

Girl, don't you know nothing?" "About the Klan?" "They just a front." "Bernita, a dangerous front." "Making a lot of noise, burning the cross. The Klans about money girl.

And maybe it takes a terrorist to fight a terrorist.

There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.

Like Nazis at a Ku Klux Klan rally, they were comfortable ideologically, but not in terms of corporate culture.

There is a saying in the Middle East that "poverty is the mother of terrorism." And hopelessness is the mother of a lot of violence in the world. If the choice is between going to a great banquet in heaven with seventy virgins versus living a life of unemployment and poverty, some will be willing to blow themselves up to escape this life.