209 Quotes About Extremism

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.

To the militant atheist I say, there's more to life than cold facts. And at the same time, to the religious fanatics I say, there's more to life than blind faith.

The greatest threat to the world is not any specific faith, for faith is nature's anti-dote to misery. The greatest threat to the world is intolerance, regardless of its religious, non-religious, political or intellectual background.

أخطر أعداء البشر هم الأصولية والتعصب والانفصالية والتطرف والعدائية والخوف المسبق المتحيز، سواءً كان دينيًّا أو إلحاديًّا أو سياسيًّا

There's no evidence from decades of Pew Research surveys that public opinion, in the aggregate, is more extreme now than in the past. But what has changed -- and pretty dramatically -- is the growing tendency of people to sort themselves into political parties based on their ideological differences.

Yesterday's truth made people nationalist, today's truth makes people globalist, tomorrow's truth will make people human.

I would rather die as an extremist of acceptance and harmony, than give in to the extremists of segregation and disharmony.

Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion.