Quotes of Extremism - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ”

- Barry Goldwater

“ I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. ”

- Barry Goldwater

“ If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism. ”

- Jim DeMint

“ The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists. ”

- Porter Goss

“ A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ”

- Bertrand Russell
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