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I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.

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

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Extremes are dangerous.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

I've been called an extremist.

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.