Vicente del Bosque Quotes

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

I don't think any extremism is rational.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

Extremes are dangerous.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

My constant efforts are directed against ultras of all kinds.

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

Yes the Muslim Brotherhood slogan has all kinds of blood curdling lines in it … but when those lines are uttered by roly-poly physicians, they become far less frightening.

The best position the government could assume would be that of moderation between opposite extremes of Ultra-Toryism and Radicalism

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Extremes can be right on no side.

People don’t get radicalized overnight. It’s a process that takes 3 or 4 years.

You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.

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

I am an extremist.

On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.

I am dealing with people with both sides. I see people who are liberating themselves but they want to forget the world. And I see people who want to liberate the world but they forget themselves. Neither is the way I want to go.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

The fanatic is dangerous.

It's not Islam, it's extremism in general, that is such a crock and that does a disservice to the people of America to make us sound like we're a bunch of idiots that we can't see what's going on in front of us and we're too weak to tell the truth.