Extremist Quotes - Page 11

• The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

  Romano Prodi

  Rejection, Rejected, Crushed

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• 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

  Religious, Real, Muslim Extremists

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  Evan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Appreciate

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• It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.

  Mike Doughty

  Hipster, Artist, Spirituality

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• Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.

  Darrell Issa

  Peaceful, Wish, Middle East

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• Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Judging, Constitution

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• 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

  Country, Ku Klux Klan, United States

  "‘A Whole New Era’". Interview with Lois Farrow Parshley, foreignpolicy.com. September 17, 2012.

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• In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

  Benji Durden

  Training, Eccentric, Way

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• The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

  Patricia Schroeder

  Government, Politics, Paranoid

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• There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Party, Voice, Issues

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 09, 2012.

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• The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

  Klaus Schwab

  Answers, World

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• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  Alexander Haig

  Iran, Paris, Giving

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• These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

  Imran Khan

  Pakistan, Mainstream, Should

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• We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

  Tony Blair

  Action, British, Knows

  PM's Press Conference, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. August 5, 2005.

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• 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

  Animal, Depth, Details

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• 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

  Justice, Intellectual, Target

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• In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Fighting, People

  "US military action in Syria to pose new challenges for Obama administration". Interview with Barney Porter, www.abc.net.au. September 12, 2014.

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• A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.

  Eboo Patel

  Loyalty, Religious, Reality

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• If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Giving, Mosques, Excuse

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• I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

  Rivka Galchen

  Crazy, Leader, Mind

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

  Leif Garrett

  Personality

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Population

  "Queen Rania to Fareed Zakaria:" We need to build channels of communication"". Interview with Fareed Zakaria, www.queenrania.jo. September 01, 2008.

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• The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  House, Community, Politics

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• 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

  Islamic, Fighting, Challenges

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• The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Accomplish Nothing, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.30, Beacon Press

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