“Among those truths: that certain cosmetics and foods contain aborted fetal cells, that the recent Ethiopian Airlines crash was a hoax, and that the Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shootings were staged.”— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Without freedom, we want no life. Without dignity, we want no life! Without justice, we want no life! Without bread for our children, we want no life! Without a future, we want no life! That is why we say: Fatherland or death!”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“Go too far in every direction; cross every firebreak, and then cross that one. Pile extremity upon extremity, and then more extremity, and then more.”— Martin Amis, amazon.com
“The young are always more extreme than the old.”— Stefano Rulli, Paolo Sorrentino, Cardinal Michael Spencer, James Cromwell, imdb.com
“Religious extremists extremely believe in God. And occasionally blow shit up. Which is really odd when you think about it. ‘Cause if you truly believe in God, you believe that God created the Earth, the moon, the stars, the sun. You believe that God is the most powerful being in the universe. So, if…”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“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, washingtonpost.com
“I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.”— Pat Robertson, www1.cbn.com
“This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English—it is a problem for the Department of Justice….Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It i…”— Spiro Agnew, bartleby.com
“If Muslims are expected and should indeed challenge Islamist extremism within our own communities wherever it rears its head, then it's twin evil, it's symbiotic partner in the form of neo-nazism, far right white supremacism, likewise the white working class English lad, or in America the white work…”— Maajid Nawaz, lbc.co.uk
“They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division, and promotes sectarianism.”— Theresa May, timesofisrael.com
“Our priority should be how to fight the enemy. In the end, it didn’t matter what kind of terrorist we call bin Laden, it mattered that we killed bin Laden. But we still can’t close our eyes to the fact that there is a distorted and dangerous stream of extremism within the Muslim world that continues…”— Hillary Clinton, time.com
“You can be pretty confident that as conflicts develop, they will become more extremist. The most brutal, harshest groups will take over. That’s what happens when violence becomes the means of interaction. It’s almost automatic. That’s true in neighborhoods, it’s true in international affairs. That’s…”— Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info
“On this road lies the future of the highest men: to bear the greatest responsibility and not collapse under it.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I know what real radicals look like — and they did not go on to graduate school.”— Camille Paglia, gos.sbc.edu
“As the experiment was designed, the groups consisted of 'liberal' and 'conservative' members — the former from Boulder, the latter from Colorado Springs. It is widely known that Boulder tends to be liberal and that Colorado Springs tends to be conservative. The groups were screened to ensure that th…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com
“Unplanned, unanticipated encounters are central to democracy itself. Such encounters often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating. They are important partly to ensure against fragmentation and extremism, which are predictable outcomes of a…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com