Political Extremism Quotes:

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

- Barry Goldwater

source: Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

topic: Freedom, Gay, Justice, Memorial Day Poems, Memorial Weekend

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Creativity, Heart, Creative, Islamic Extremists, Extremism

That government is best which governs least.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Freedom, Government, Historical, Limiting Freedom, Limiting Government

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Political, Disputes, Extremes, Extremism, Political Extremism

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Creative, World, Needs, Islamic Extremists, Extremism

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.

- John W. Gardner

source: "A Nation Is Never Finished". ABA Journal, Volume 53, page 1011, November 1967.

topic: Ignorance, Simple, Two, Extremism, Political Extremism

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Mind Thinking, Science Religion

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

- Benazir Bhutto

topic: Religious, Responsibility, People, Extremism, Political Extremism

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

- George W. Romney

topic: Duplicity, Political, Liberty, Political Extremism

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

- Charles Ferguson

topic: Religious, Political, Politics, Extremism, Political Extremism

No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .

- Bob Tyrrell

topic: Hands, Wings, Political, Political Extremism

Law enforcement does counter political extremism here in the United States in the exact same way that they do political extremists who are infiltrated into the United States, who may come from a religious motivation, as we saw overseas in Europe. But the same methodologies have to be used.

- Malcolm Wrightson Nance

topic: Religious, Motivation, Europe, Political Extremism