Common ground Quote by Bryant McGill

“extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.”

— Milan Kundera

“extremists at both ends of the political continuum have more in common with each other than they do with the vast majority of people…

— Brené Brown

“Antagonism breeds extremism.”

— Émile Zola

“Extremism is marked by a closed mind and a meanness of spirit - unwilling to listen, unwilling to reason, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to…

— Laurence Overmire

“The middle layers of society, where people see each other face to face, offer a middle ground between radical individualism and extreme centralization. Our…

— Yuval Levin

“In our narrow, confined existence, we tend to forget the essence of life ... All of us, whatever our occupation or class, are equally…

— Jean Jaures

“The dismal course of the conflict, dragging on from one decade to the next and from one deadlock to the next, seems to me…

— C. V. Wedgewood

“Extremism frequently turns its champions into angry people, driven by conflicting desires. At first, I pitied my less enlightened parents and siblings. Then I…

— Manal al-Sharif

“Our best hope will never lie in individual survivalism. Nor does it lie in small groups doing their best to prepare for the worst.…

— Lierre Keith

“Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty,…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“That is why in this time of heightened threats, we must remain vigilant and work together as closely as possible if we are to…

— Historica Press