Quotes About Political Extremism

#1. 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 W. Gardner

#2. Law enforcement does counter political extremism here in the United States in the exact same way that they do political extremists who are infiltrated into the United States, who may come from a religious motivation, as we saw overseas in Europe. But the same methodologies have to be used.

Malcolm Wrightson Nance

#3. No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate ...

Bob Tyrrell

#4. Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

George W. Romney

#5. If you want to know what political extremism can lead to, look at the Zapruder film. Take particular note of frame 313, where Kennedy's head explodes.

Stephen King

#6. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Benazir Bhutto

#9. The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. Joy is an important element of happiness. It is sometimes the difference between striving and thriving. One must nurture the joy in one's life so that it reaches full bloom.

Maya Angelou

#11. Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Pope Paul VI

#13. I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath
a rank
a throne
a grave
The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#14. It's only too late if you don't start now.

Barbara Sher

#15. The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans.

Criss Jami

#16. Quiet Romeo was a scary Romeo. It was like the calm before the storm. Or an empty football stadium.

Cambria Hebert

#17. I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

Bill Bradley

#18. We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].

Billy Graham

#19. Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

Richard M. Nixon

#20. Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.

Yasser Arafat

#21. The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

Adriano Bulla

#22. An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.

Zane Grey

#23. Cancer was nothing more than a chapter in my life's story. It would never be my life's story.

Robin Roberts

#24. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#25. For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

Bernie Sanders