Hugh Miller Quotes

Ideology has consequences.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

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

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

Political Islam is exclusive in its claims.

Terrorists

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

Islam has been transformed from a religion to an ideology.

The War on Terror is a religious war … We are dealing with a set of ideas that kill.

Pathology by Daesh is distinctively to swallow its opponents, to frighten the population. In that regard, the threat is very real.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

The rise of ISIS has exposed the darkest side of humanity - at times manifesting their violent ideology at our very doorsteps.

The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it.

The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.

It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.