Best Extremism Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned done it. Gotten that war against reason and uppity secularists you always wanted. Gotten even for the Scopes trial, which they say was one of many burrs under your saddle until your last breath. Well, rejoice, old man, because your tribes have gathered around America's oldest magical hairball of ignorance and superstition, Christian fundamentalism, and their numbers have enabled them to suck so much oxygen out of the political atmosphere that they are now acknowledged as a mainstream force in politics. Episcopalians, Jews, and affluent suburban Methodists and Catholics, they are all now scratching their heads, sweating, and swearing loudly that this pack of lower-class zealots cannot possibly represent the mainstream--not the mainstream they learned about in their fancy sociology classes or were so comfortably reassured about by media commentators who were people like themselves. Goodnight, Grandpa Baldwin. I'll toast you from hell.”

“You know,” said Jehangir, breaking the silence, “it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.”

“If humans believe in love the way they believe in rival faiths, there will be peace on earth.”

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”

“Till you cut ties to all authoritarianism, you'll never sense the spark of holiness.”

“Religion is a right, fundamentalism is not.”

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”