Extremist Quotes - Page 9

• Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Pragmatism, Critical, Left

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• I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).

  Terry Mosher

  Dog, Islamic, Apology

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• 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

  Silly, Feminist, Definitions

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• I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

  John Wayne

  Jesus, Wings, Views

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.16, Taylor Trade Publications

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• In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

  George W. Bush

  War, Iraq, Use

  Speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

  Helen Suzman

  Moderation, Moderates

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• I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, Believe

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• I'm an extremist. Either I'm being healthy and organic, or I want a big, juicy In-N-Out burger, I want it all now! It sure makes me happy.

  Paula Patton

  Healthy, Burgers, Juicy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

  Christopher McCandless

  Spiritual, Home, Adventure

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• Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Teenage, Regret

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• Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Religious, Spring

  Pat Robertson (1995). “The Turning Tide”, W Publishing Group

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Germany

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• [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

  Asking, Republican, Notes

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• The reality is if we sit back and allow a few officials behind closed doors to launch offensive attacks without any oversight against foreign nations, against people we don't like, against political groups, radicals, and extremists whose ideas we may not agree with, and could be repulsive or even violent - if we let that happen without public buy-in, we won't have any seat at the table of government to decide whether or not it's appropriate for these officials to drag us into some kind of war activity that we don't want, but we weren't aware of at the time.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Reality, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Children, Environmental, Commodity

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• If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Color, Wings, People

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• America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

  Barack Obama

  War, America, Islam

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

  Nelson Mandela

  Blood, Lust, Sides

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• There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Islam, Groups, Three

  "The Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on reforming Islam". Interview with Brian Bethune, www.macleans.ca. April 13, 2015.

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• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, People, Community

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• Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.

  Lester R. Brown

  Years, Oil, Environmental

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• Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil.

  Lester R. Brown

  Light, Oil, Environmental

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• Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

  Jerry Brown

  Issues, Environmental, Nuclear

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