Answers Quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can…

— Baruch Spinoza

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the…

— Maxwell Perkins

Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and…

— Antonio Guterres

“Extremism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs are among them.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who…

— Alexander Hamilton

“There is no doctrine called extremism. When tyrants speak of extremists, they just mean people who are not in the mainstream—as the tyrants themselves…

— Timothy Snyder

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the…

— Edward Abbey

Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were not enough…

— Tim Crane

The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“• They travel in tight circles of likeminded people. • Their thinking is more likely based on what authorities have told them rather than…

— John W. Dean

It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme…

— Margaret Chase Smith