209 Quotes About Extremism

It's not about binary but awareness of Oneness riddle. Between two extremes I choose the way in the middle.

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!

The best path is to have no path.

Dependency on drugs is quite easily proclaimed by the so-called intellectual society as lethal, while that very society has been ever-lastingly dependent upon varied forms of ideologies, be it religious, atheistic, political or any other. They say, “don’t do drugs for it’s dangerous for you”, but they never say, “don’t do ideology for it’s dangerous for your society”.

Contending with fanaticism does not mean destroying all fanatics, but rather cautiously handling the little fanatic who hides, more or less, inside each of our souls. It also means ridiculing, just a little, our own convictions; being curious; and trying to take a peek, from time to time, not only through our neighbor's window but, more important, at the reality viewed from that window, which will necessarily be different from the one seen through our own.

How dare a scripture tell someone that the person is born sinful and requires a messiah to save him or her! Human is the savior to human. There is nothing else.

اكتشفت بأن دولنا مهيكلة لتخلق شعوباً متدينة، من مناهج التعليم وحتى مرافق الحياة الأخرى، ولهذا لا يجب أن نستغرب كل هذا الكم من الانغلاق والتطرف والتعصب، ولا يجب أن نتساءل عن سبب وجود كل هذه التنظيمات الإرهابية في أرجاء المنطقة. فقد كان النظام التعليمي يشل التفكير، ويصح أن يسمى تلقيناً لا أكثر.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

Starve your rigidity and feed your morality.