Extremism Quotes

The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.

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

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!

Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence – it is a threat to progress – it is a threat to greatness.

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth.

He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.

Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.

I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced, ” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.

No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.

Humans are not simply higher than Gods, Gods are mere mystical representations of the humans themselves.

Plenty are the tastes and plenty are the paths.

Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.

Hurry, your imaginary heaven is calling you up, my dear holier-than-thou religious nuts.

The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase “salvation through Christ, the Son of God.

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.

If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.

​Through ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear.

Quran, like most other scriptures, is a book of most wonderful truth mixed with the most disgraceful superstitions of human nature.

For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derrière.

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.

The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.

The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god.

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.

Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity – who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying

Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.

A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.

Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.

The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

It is in unity that we find strength, in unity we find hope, and in unity we can stand firm as the darkness approaches. Let us stand together – and stand firm – against the many faces of hate.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

God heals as well as God kills.

Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason.

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

Jihadis! Please go to your imaginary heaven - out there, nowhere. Us, the infidel lot, have helluva lot to do after you leave. Out here.

To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.