Lunatic Fringe Quotes

White Power! We’re going to save the white race.

The aliens who control our press and radio and the boob tubes spattered their slime over the country. Swarms of the ignorant and neurotic little shysters whom we call "intellectuals" issued from the doors of the colleges and universities, shrieking and spitting as is their wont. And all that had its effect. But the conspiracy was able to silence McCarthy

It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.

[The John Birch Society] has attracted a lunatic fringe that is now assuming serious proportions.

Glenn Beck retired or got fired...and a lot of people are asking who will now speak for the raving lunatics who startle you outside of a parking garage?

There are some people who are so partisan that they do not live in the word the rest of us are in.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

When I spoke of the Progressive party as having a lunatic fringe, I specifically had you in mind!

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and I have been the targets of death threats from the ‘irrational fringe’ of society, people apparently spurred by Republican criticism of the high court

The public schools have indeed been the most powerful single engine of subversion that our enemies have used upon us.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Racists now call themselves racialists. White supremacists now call themselves white nationalists. The paranoid fringe now calls itself alt-right. But the hate burns just as bright.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, when those people who traditionally defend and care about a civil society no longer do so, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures, all of which we are watching leap up around the fringes of our political establishment - this lunatic fringe, which has largely taken over the Republican Party.