Extremists Quote by Orson Scott Card

“To become an extremist, hang around with people you agree with.”

— Cass Sunstein

“...the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.”

— Manil Suri

“Antagonism breeds extremism.”

— Émile Zola

“Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.”

— Cathryn Louis

“Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political…

— Alexander Hamilton

“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

“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

“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

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

— Mary Augusta Ward

“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

“Fanatics.” Mircea sounded disgusted. “She called them utopians.” “Same thing under a different name.” “She said they could be dangerous—” “They always are. Anyone…

— Karen Chance

It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he…

— Theodore Roosevelt