Fanaticism Quotes

Fanaticism Quote of the day

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.