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Quotes About Extremism

They're always going, don't deal with terrorists. Let's deal with them. What's Allah offering you boys, 100 virgins? We'll give you 50 slags.
~ Frankie Boyle
Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.
~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi
There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.
~ Tony Banks, Baron Stratford
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.
~ George Santayana
el fanatismo hay siempre entusiasmo, por eso es tan peligroso y contagioso, todo lo pinta muy simple y eso atrae a las multitudes.
~ Javier Marías
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
the news tends to focus mostly on incidents and areas of our planet that represent the most extreme forms of human unconsciousness, which more often than not means violence and warfare, or at least severe dysfunction.
~ Eckhart Tolle
En los tumultos populares hay siempre cierto número de hombres que, o por acaloramiento de pasión, o por persuasión fanática, o por un designio malvado, o por un perverso gusto del desorden, hacen todo lo posible por llevar las cosas al peor extremo; proponen o promueven los consejos más despiadados, soplan en el fuego cada vez que empieza a languidecer: nunca es demasiado para ellos; no querrían que el tumulto tuviera fin ni medida.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Feminist admirers of direct action often overlook Mary Richardson's later public life. After participating in bombing and arson campaigns in support of suffragism, Richardson became a very senior member of the British Union of Fascists,[14] a path that other Suffragettes followed.
~ Alexander Adams
Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
~ John Delaney
I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.
~ Jeff Sessions
We will not waste 30 years of our lives dealing with extremist ideas; we will destroy them today.
~ Mohammad bin Salman
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
~ Roger Ailes
This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It's gone viral. It's very dangerous, and it's very hard to stop.
~ Michael McCaul
Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.
~ Greg Graffin
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
~ Margaret Thatcher
We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
~ Max Baucus
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
~ Salman Rushdie
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.
~ Roxane Gay
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
~ Maajid Nawaz
We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.
~ Matt Mead
As the urgency of the threat presented by Islamic extremism grows, we cannot afford to have the commander-in-chief issue executive orders in direct contravention of laws that he enacted.
~ Mike Pompeo