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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. -- Leo Rosten
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals. -- Barack Obama
Extremists are not going to disappear. -- Edward Snowden
Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book. -- Malala Yousafzai
Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by. -- Nelson Mandela
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right. -- Richard M. Nixon
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. -- Jon Meacham
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda. -- Abdallah II
The extremists took over the primary process. -- Arlen Specter
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban. -- Malala Yousafzai
I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position. -- Alan Dershowitz
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier. -- Iqbal Quadir
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content. -- Salman Rushdie
Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that's actually nonsense. -- Bill McKibben
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions. -- Noam Chomsky
The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear. -- Vikas Swarup
One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels. -- Leon Panetta
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. -- Joichi Ito
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.' -- Salman Rushdie
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. -- Robert Kennedy
We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. -- Harry Reid
Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. -- Lee Kuan Yew
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward. -- Joichi Ito
This is actually true of the overall fight against al-Qaeda and trans-national extremists, that as you put pressure on them in one location, they'll seek safe haven sanctuaries in other areas. So you do have to continue to pursue them. But they have less capability. -- David Petraeus
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
Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved. -- Brendan Myers
One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought. -- David Miliband
We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. -- David Petraeus
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam. -- Sam Harris
When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way. -- Penn Jillette
Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief. -- Susan Estrich
Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When extremists come together extreme things happen. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
In every religion, you find the same extremists. -- Marjane Satrapi
Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus. -- Hope Solo
You're always going to have extremists in every religion. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
You're always going to have extremists in every religion. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
Listen to the extremists - changes come from them. -- Esther Peterson
Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. -- Cat Stevens
We know British Muslims in general abhor the actions of the extremists. -- Tony Blair
Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral. -- Bashar al-Assad
The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world. -- Klaus Schwab
In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right. -- James Cook
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists, -- Sally Kohn
If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate. -- Arlen Specter
The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates. -- Helen Suzman
I think we do need radicals. We need extremists, because that's how change happens. -- Nicole Kidman
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East. -- Najib Razak
If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques. -- Mohammed Dahlan
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. -- Ronald Reagan
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world. -- Otto Schily
Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans? -- Stewart Baker
Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists. -- Porter Goss
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. -- Roxane Gay
As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi. -- John Abizaid
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists. -- Noam Chomsky
Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world. -- Ron Lewis
Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them. -- Imran Khan
These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists, -- Denis Hayes
More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world. -- Thomas E. Donilon
In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front. -- George W. Bush
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. -- Malala Yousafzai
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. -- Gustav Stresemann
I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored. -- Tony Campolo
I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist. -- Stephen Colbert
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios. -- Michael Shermer
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. -- Abraham Flexner
America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists. -- Barack Obama
Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals. -- Roger Ross Williams
I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given. -- Zeena Schreck
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. -- Christopher Lasch
Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments. -- John Boehner
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists. -- Maajid Nawaz
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability. -- Paul Valery
Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies. -- David A. Bednar
There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy. -- Jonathan Klein
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two. -- Pankaj Mishra
Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop. -- Tony Blair
The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community. -- Joseph L. Bast
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. -- King Hussein I
In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left. -- Najib Razak
The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence. -- John Boehner
Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary. -- Kenneth Clarke
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
Some Westerners ["] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized. -- Madeleine Albright
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. -- Richard Perle
Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against. -- Greg Graffin
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question. -- Chinua Achebe
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner. -- Maajid Nawaz
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We are helping our Somali brothers get rid of these narrow-minded attackers. The Somali people do not support the extremists, they are on the side of our soldiers. -- Yoweri Museveni
Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them. -- John Abizaid
The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism. -- Craig L. Thomas
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations, -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine -- Malcolm X
The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists. -- William L. Shirer
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable. -- Joichi Ito
There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'? -- Meghan Daum
The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states. -- Barack Obama
However, the religious extremists, especially the pro-Taliban organizations, they mobilized and instigated the Islamists to come on the streets and put pressure on the government to stop any reform on the blasphemy law. -- Shahbaz Bhatti
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for. -- Eskinder Nega
Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization. -- Michael Gove
[The Republicans] are always asking the Muslims to denounce their extremists. And I agree with them. But they don't take that note and do it among their own. They don't denounce their own extremists. -- Bill Maher
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We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality. -- Bashar al-Assad

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