Extremism Quotes

79 Extremism quotes by 69 unique authors

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism. — Jim DeMint
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled… — Jeffrey Kluger
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of… — Janet Napolitano
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. — Bertrand Russell
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we… — Al-Waleed bin Talal
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval… — Martin Filler
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations… — Sam Harris
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among… — Jon Krakauer
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremismâ€”I don't know whether he is… — Emile M. Cioran
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste… — Milan Kundera
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,… — Richard Dawkins
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When… — Hillary Clinton
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear,… — George W. Romney
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity,… — Henry Rollins
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism. — Elliott Abrams
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of… — Elliott Abrams

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