Extremism Quotes

“Antagonism breeds extremism.”

— Émile Zola

Extremists are not going to disappear.

— Edward Snowden

“Blut muss fliessen”

— Jan Valtin

“A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.”

— Robert E. Howard

I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

— Kim Dotcom

“. . . being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing.”

— Mark M. Bello

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

— Hillary Clinton

The reality is that far-right extremism is no longer dominated by loners.

— Mehdi Hasan

The extremists took over the primary process.

— Arlen Specter

The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

— Noam Chomsky

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

— Asma Jahangir

The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow…

— Mohammad bin Salman

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

— Barack Obama

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

— Mouloud Benzadi

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online…

— Maajid Nawaz

The war against Islamic extremism will be long. They are in it for the long haul, which means that we have to…

— Will Hurd

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

— Ted Cruz

The police have spent years pursuing Islamic extremism while too often overlooking the growing violent threat posed by the far-right.

— Dawn Foster

It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is…

— Ravi Zacharias

Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of…

— Eric Hoffer

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“It is wishful thinking that an anti-extremism campaign will work when this country was founded on puritanical Islam. We have to grow…

— Karen Elliott House

“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a…

— Sara Ellie MacKenzie

I do not understand how people can look at the rapid spread of extremism all across the globe and not understand that…

— Chris Murphy

If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually…

— Ali Sina

Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips…

— Barack Obama

“Anti-government rhetoric appears to offer a vision of greater efficiency, self-reliance, and personal freedom. (For obvious reasons, it also usually enjoys greater…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -…

— Hisham Melhem

If they hear people running for - president... despite all the other problems that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he…

— Hillary Clinton

You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying,…

— Tony Blair

I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,…

— Richard Dawkins

The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the…

— Peter van Agtmael

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be…

— Jon Krakauer

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

— Nawaz Sharif

It annoys me right-wing extremism is not equated to Islamic extremism.

— Malcolm Nance

“Still, say what you will about right-wing extremism, at least it’s an ethos.”

— Anonymous

“Religion must bring oneness, otherwise it’s not religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't think any extremism is rational.

— Marcia Gay Harden