Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we…

Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“All it takes is common sense to understand that the Rajapaksa administration has vandalised every layer of the country’s resources to get rid of…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

For as long as we're plagued by religions, we'll be plagued by extremists, because there's nothing more extreme than believing the human race was…

— Steve Fowler

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become…

— Madeleine Albright

There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more.…

— Linus Torvalds

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

— Ronald Reagan

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.

— Martin Luther King Jr

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

— Cat Stevens

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

— Christopher Lasch

“Extremism' certainly sounds bad, and governments often try to make it sound worse by using the word 'terrorism' in the same sentence. But the…

— Timothy Snyder

Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense.

— Bill McKibben

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior…

— Margaret Heffernan

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to…

— Craig L. Thomas

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can…

— Susan Estrich

“Kill extremists and more extremists will appear. Kill Extremist Ideology and extremism will disappear.”

— Mouloud Benzadi