Extremist Quotes - Page 9

• I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Strong, People, Support

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• The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

  George W. Bush

  War, Extremist Groups, America

  www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2006.

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• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

  Abraham Flexner

  Science, Self, Play

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• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  Christopher Lasch

  Issues, Purpose, Manipulation

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• For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Japan, Korea

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• Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Work, Mean, People

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2002.

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• We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

  Jon Ronson

  Relationship, Childhood, Understanding

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• We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

  Silvan Shalom

  Israel, Order, Safety

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• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  War, Struggle, Mean

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• A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

  Gustav Stresemann

  People, Soil, Offers

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• Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

  James Nicoll

  People, Might, Killing

  Usenet article, 2005.

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• Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Ideas, World, Territory

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

  Malcolm X

  Medicine, People, Suffering

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• These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.

  Denis Hayes

  Warning, World, Finest

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• Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  People, Violence, Movement

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• Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Frustration, Organization, Poverty

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• Im an extremist so Im either hated or loved. I think its down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people dont forget.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

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• In every religion, you find the same extremists.

  Marjane Satrapi

  "Confessions of Miss Mischief". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Country, Past, Years

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• The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

  Nigel Calder

  War, Ice, Age

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• Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

  Stewart Baker

  Islamic, Doe, Republican

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• Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.

  Chad Griffin

  Country, Children, Hate

  "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.

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• Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues.

  Peter Rodman

  Years, Community, Leader

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• The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Thinking, Israel, Talking

  "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They all want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies. Yes, it is hard to believe but even here at home we have to stand up for women’s rights and we have to reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America has to set an example for the entire world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, Home

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