Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

If a people bent on violence and terrorism have free elections, they will elect leaders bent on violence and terrorism.

Our showy celebration of, and absolute insistence upon, individual autonomy and unconstrained diversity pushes those by nature least equipped to live comfortably in a liberal democracy not to the limits of their tolerance, but to their intolerant extremes.

My feeling is that the most dangerous people are always those who take a hardline position - and nothing inspires that sort of extremism like difference.

The loudest voices both in the U.S. and abroad often are those that preach hatred and exclusion. But hatred and exclusion will not bring employment.

We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.

I do think - I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this - that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think they're evil.

I don't criticise anybody, but I just don't understand religion. Like I don't understand nationalism. These are the two things that cause wars. I don't understand why they are supposed to be good things.

The concept of the terrorists is to plunge our country into division.

Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

It's really important we make the case that this is not the country of Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson. That intolerance and hatred and division is not representative of our country.

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

It's never a good sign when extremism becomes the norm.

The rise of ISIS has exposed the darkest side of humanity - at times manifesting their violent ideology at our very doorsteps.

Terror outfits like ISIS don't believe in a plural society and diversity of faith, which reflects inherent beauty of human beings.

The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it.

Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.