Extremist Quotes - Page 3

• I accept the term extremist with pride.

  Ashin Wirathu

  Pride, Accepting, Term

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

  Carre Otis

  Keys, One Direction, Balance

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Talking, Civilization, Islam

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• Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Men, Fire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

  Reid Bryson

  Air, Environmental, Population

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• I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

  Neil Young

  Matter

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• In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Powerful, Military, Cutting

  Interview With Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

  Amish Tripathi

  Atheist, Mumbai, Amish

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• 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

  Uganda, Benefits, Type

  "Foiled in the United States, Anti-Gay Evangelicals Spread Hate in Africa". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2013.

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• An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

  Leon Panetta

  Extremist Groups, Gains, Chemicals

  "Network Insecurity" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

  Peter King

  Islamic, Years, America

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• I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.

  Marshall Curry

  Thinking, Worry, Film

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• Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

  Gary Hamel

  Resilience, Becoming, Paradox

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• 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

  Hobbies, Misguided, Steadfast

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• I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their rightwing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

  Maurice Strong

  Taken, Views, Wings

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

  Cat Stevens

  Sacred Scripture, Elements, Of Context

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• The extremists took over the primary process.

  Arlen Specter

  Process, Primaries

  "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

  Arlen Specter

  Wings, People, Enough

  "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

  Hope Solo

  Athlete, Focus, Training

  "Will you still medal in the morning?" by Sam Alipour, www.espn.com. July 8, 2012.

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• It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.

  Ariel Sharon

  Dream, Israel, Path

  "Sharon narrowly survives attempt to oust him as Likud leader" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• 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

  Journey, Long, Mumbai

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• 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

  Crazy, Steps, Terrorism

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• I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.

  Bill Richardson

  Hurt, Thinking, Issues

  "Bill Richardson: Latino Presidential Candidate Coming Soon". "Fox News Latino" with Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.

  Josh Marshall

  Team, People, Insane

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