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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. -- Benazir Bhutto
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice -- Barry Goldwater
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice. -- Hillary Clinton
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism. -- Benazir Bhutto
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. -- John W. Gardner
Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left. -- Clint Eastwood
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. -- Hillary Clinton
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 focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence. -- Janet Napolitano
One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. -- Milan Kundera
Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed ... The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism. -- Shinzo Abe
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, violence and threats when they endanger liberty. -- George W. Romney
Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad. -- Jacob M. Appel
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism. -- Jim DeMint
We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell. -- Vicente del Bosque
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' -- Brene Brown
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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
We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping. -- Bennie Thompson
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
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 radicalism. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together. -- David Hyde Pierce
We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices. -- George Papandreou
The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism. -- Tariq Ramadan
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater
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 by rumors and flat-out lies. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. -- Denis McDonough
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 we have made to faith itself. -- Sam Harris
If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part. -- Barack Obama
All Taleban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ["ifraat", or doing something to excess] and conservatism ["tafreet", or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path. -- Mohammed Omar
Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. -- Elliott Abrams
If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation. -- Ali Sina
Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag. -- Bill Shuster
I think that the best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. For me the best way to fight against terrorism and extremism... just a simple thing: educate the next generation. -- Malala Yousafzai
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 have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
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, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. -- Henry Rollins
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism. -- Najib Razak
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 since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. -- Martin Filler
To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either. -- Angela Merkel
I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner. -- Malcolm X
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied -- particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines -- when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available. -- Barack Obama
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 those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off. -- Jon Krakauer
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, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. -- Richard Dawkins
Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds. -- Edward Abbey
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. -- Benazir Bhutto
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The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. -- Joichi Ito
We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today. -- Maajid Nawaz
The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists. -- Porter Goss
Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level. -- Edward Snowden
I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate. -- Bill Bradley
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. -- Raisa Gorbacheva
The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities. -- Maajid Nawaz
Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America. -- Edward Brooke
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society. -- Maajid Nawaz
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote. -- Maajid Nawaz
Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. -- Barack Obama
Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive. -- Steven Weber
Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners. -- Bernie Sanders
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. -- Paul Watson
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' -- Brene Brown
Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism. -- Zhou Yongkang
I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful. -- Martin Amis
We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe. -- Barack Obama
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 way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here. -- Jill Stein
If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected. -- Anil Agarwal
We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression. -- Hillary Clinton
The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other. -- Juan Pablo Di Pace
You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy. -- Sydney Pollack
To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta. -- Joko Widodo
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. -- Mo Ibrahim
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition. -- Jonas Gahr Store
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated. -- Maajid Nawaz
I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense. -- Roger Stone
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. -- Otto Schily
It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow. -- Ravi Zacharias
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear. -- Jonathan Franzen
the policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region. -- Mohammad Khatami
The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures. -- Tony Blair
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas Kristof
Hillary Clinton and the policies of Hillary and Bill - passed by Bill, but enthusiastically supported and promoted by Hillary - have really created this right-wing extremism that has produced Donald Trump. -- Jill Stein
The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's probably worse there. -- Noam Chomsky
Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world. -- Tony Blair
There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism. -- Tony Blair
There's no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece of literature that presents extremism. -- Mark Earley
I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism. -- Theresa May
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism. -- Jonas Gahr Store
There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect. -- Sydney Pollack
What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States. -- Condoleezza Rice
It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism ... -- Aung San Suu Kyi

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