Lee Zeldin Quotes

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

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

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

Nor do I believe that we should be impartial about certain things like racialism, or extreme forms of political belief.

Religious clerics have a big share in the rise on intolerance towards minorities. A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is low and people are naïve when it comes on opinion making, it becomes easy to be successful in manipulating people’s minds. The manipulation of their opinions by those who are extremists in their views and beliefs always meet disaster. These clerics have played an ugly role most of the times and their preaching of hate speech always led to more sufferings and disaster for minorities

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

People are just so stupid.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

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