Hard-Line Quotes
Reflections on rigid ideology and the refusal to compromise
These hard-line quotes examine what happens when a belief system refuses any middle ground, from party politics to deeply held religious or national positions. Several voices here warn that unyielding certainty can turn destructive over time, while others simply describe how it feels to reject a movement's most extreme wing. For more perspectives on firm convictions, see our Desk quotes.
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.
Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
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