Fanaticism Quotes

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

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

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.