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  I’m sort of obsessed with the idea that religious extremism is a maligned factor in most of our lives.

  Roger Waters

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obsessed, Extremism

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defence, Extremism, Freedom

• We must take care that our reaction to one extreme is not so violent as to thrust us to the other.

  Shraga Silverstein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extremism

• 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 F. Kennedy

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• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extremism, Compassion

• Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Conservatives, Extremism

• There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Conservatives, Liberals, Extremism, Philosophy

• At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Ideals, Politics, Religion, Suffering

  Tags in Extremism, Stupidity, Evil

• Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

  Bertrand Russell

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  Tags in Extremism, Misery, Hope

• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Extremism

• Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Extremism

• 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 William Gardner

  Tags in Extremism