Richard Dawkins Quotes

It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism…

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

Jewish extremism and Islamic fanaticism fed each other.

In times of conflict, America tends to focus on personalities over ideas or movements, trying to play the man, not the board — as if capturing or killing Osama bin Laden, for example, would instantly end the present conflict. But such thinking loses sight of the fact that ideas have consequences. If one believes that God commands something, this belief is not likely to dissipate just because the person who elucidated it has been silenced. Islam, as a faith, is as essential a feature of the terrorist threat today as it was of the Barbary piracy over two centuries ago.

Terror … is often the result of giving politics a sacred, absolute dimension.

Especially dangerous is crime disguised under political and pseudo-religious motives, such as terrorism and the like.

Terrorist groups always want to believe that they represent a general aggrieved group far larger than they really do.

Terrorists have hijacked our religion.

Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.

The Middle East is a region where extremists go all the way and moderates just go away.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

There is a cancer of extremism that infects Islam today.

There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.