Quotes of Extremist - somelinesforyou

“ By the end, everybody had a label — pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary … If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary. ”

- Jerry Rubin

“ Death to all fanatics. ”

- Unknown

“ Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ When I proposed this amendment to the Legislature, it simply removed segregationist language from our constitution — something I hope all Alabamians would support. ”

- Bob Riley

“ Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. ”

- John Dryden

“ So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. ”

- John Dryden

“ The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ Math is radical! ”

- Bumper Sticker

“ He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. ”

- Bishop Hall

“ Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. ”

- Gloria Swanson

“ I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress. ”

- John Templeton

“ We are revolutionaries. ”

- Stokely Carmichael

“ There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own. ”

- Ted Rall

“ I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip. ”

- Ted Rall

“ I think it has a pernicious effect on society. Hollywood projects a leftist homosexual agenda, which goes along with radical feminism, and a misunderstanding of what Christianity teaches. ”

- Tom Snyder

“ If a man is too right he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. ”

- Curt Rosten

“ The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. ”

- King Hussein I

“ All extremists should be taken out and shot. ”

- Unknown

“ My purse, my person, my extremist means, lie all unlocked to your occasion. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Porter Goss

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

- Leon Jaworski

“ September 11 was a wake-up call for Muslims. It is not about East versus West. It is a conflict within Islam. We are the next target for extremists. ”

- King Abdullah of Jordan

“ There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy. ”

- Jonathan Klein
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