Top 215 Extremist Quotes & Sayings

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

Some Pakistanis fought for the Taliban. Pakistani extremist groups provided infrastructural support to Al Qaeda. There was a coming and going of Al Qaeda militants and leaders between Afghanistan and Pakistan for several years. All that has really happened is that Al Qaeda has escaped from Afghanistan come into Pakistan, got in touch with their contacts and friends in these extremist groups, which then provided them with safe houses, cars, and not just in the border areas but also in the cities. Rooting out Al Qaeda in Pakistan now is where the main battle is being fought.

There are three possible ways to react to right-wing extremist parties. The first is to act as though they don't exist and to no longer risk taking political initiatives that could get these parties against you. The second reaction is to chase after these right-wing extremist parties in fascination. The third is to say, these people are my true enemies and to engage them in battle.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Rest assured I am not an extremist.

No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

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

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

I'm not an extremist. And I disagree with Saudis who are calling for regime change and stuff like that.

I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members.

Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

I've been called an extremist.

I'm a bit of an extremist.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

I accept the term extremist with pride.

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

Don't forget Yemen, where there are also extremist elements, as we saw recently.

Likud has been hijacked by a group of extremist settlers.

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

We must not be afraid to define our enemy. It is Islamic extremist terrorism. I did not say all of Islam. I said Islamic extremist terrorism. Failing to identify them properly maligns decent Muslims around the world. It also sets up a fear of being politically incorrect that can have serious consequences. And it has.

Nothing outrages and disappoints an extremist more than compromise.

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

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

I am an extremist.

If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.

You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.