Quotes about Extremism

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.

The first word Palestinian schoolchildren learn in their reading primers is jihad.

the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry.

I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that's a dream of theirs, to go into Italy.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

When the church has occasion to set the rules for all society, it often veers toward the extremism

There is little question Islamist terrorists and molesting clergy have both played a role in the rise of atheism in our time. No atheist activist is nearly as effective in alienating people from God and religion as are evil 'religious' people.

As of the second decade in the twenty-first century, nearly all acts of terror around the world (as opposed to acts of terror confined to one country, as in the case of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka) have been committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. Of course the vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists. But this frequently noted fact is meaningless.

When you fuse the two ideas of "nation" and "socialism," what you get is National Socialism.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a group of former Confederate soldiers; its first grand wizard was a Confederate general who was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. The Klan soon spread beyond the South to the Midwest and the West and became, in the words of historian Eric Foner, "the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.