Patrick Leahy

If we harm civilians when it could reasonably have been avoided, and if we fail to fairly and promptly help the innocent victims, the local population will turn against us - and make the fight against violent extremists even more difficult.

American Politician

Maurice Strong

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

Canadian Businessman

Jennifer Aniston

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

American Actress

Joichi Ito

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

Japanese Businessman

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

American Leader

Vikas Swarup

The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.

Indian Novelist

Davey Havok

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

American Musician

Lina Wertmuller

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Italian Director

Claudette Colvin

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

American Activist

Leif Garrett

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

The term often implies disapproval, signifying views that are seen as unreasonable or overly aggressive.

Negative Connotation

The word 'extremist' suggests actions or beliefs that can be disruptive or harmful to society.

Social Impact

Use with caution, as calling someone an 'extremist' may offend and halt dialogue.

Context Sensitivity

Used to describe actions beyond mainstream, often implying a willingness to go to great lengths for beliefs.

Associated Actions

The adjective form emphasizes the intensity and often the exclusivity of someone's views.

Intensity

Highlights views or behaviors that deviate significantly from what is generally accepted.

Not Mainstream

 across the world by the way we were laughing at democratic activists we felt they were there from the age of yesteryear we that they were out of date I learned how to use emails from the extremist organization that I used I learned how to effectively communicate across borders without being detected

A global culture to...

 that every cleric that she had talked to had shut her down and said that her rage, her sense of injustice in the world, was just going to get her in trouble. And so with nowhere to channel and make sense of this anger, she was a prime target to be exploited by extremists promising her a solution.

What it's like to be a...

 than my own extremist father is not lost on me. One day, I had a conversation with my mother about how my worldview was starting to change, and she said something to me that I will hold dear to my heart for as long as I live. She looked at me with the weary eyes

I am the son of a...

 was because I was within an extremist organization that was forced to think beyond the confines of the nation-state. The age of where ideas and narratives were increasingly defining behavior and identity and allegiances. So as I said, we looked to the status quo

Maajid Nawaz: A global...

 to have nuptials out in the sunset. It's very romantic, and you become a hero. For both men and women, that's the propaganda being given. So what extremist groups are very good at is taking a very complicated, confusing, nuanced world

How young people join...

 or be overtaken by the military or extremists of all kinds? We cannot tell. The same works for the Western sector, where you can see all these excited young people protesting around the world, occupying this, occupying that.

Srdja Popovic: How to...

 acceptable once that person accepts that they are an extremist and when they act on that there are a violent extremists so first and foremost basic psychological discourse on nature versus nurture and this is how we grow up

An inside look at...

 and if we keep ourselves from it, that fear grows, and sometimes, it turns into hatred. Since I've left the movement, I've helped over a hundred people disengage from extremist movements, from white supremacist groups --

My descent into...

 need humor as much as the air we breathe. This is why the extremists, the dictators, the autocrats and, frankly, all the ideologues of the world cannot stand humor.

A free world needs...

 You'll never get the truth from a current extremist. Their whole job is to lie to you and to spin things their own way.

Extremist