Quotes About Fanaticism

#1. 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.

Otto Schily

#2. Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.

Mercedes Lackey

#3. 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.

Jurgen Habermas

#4. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

Franz Werfel

#5. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

#6. 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.

Alexei Sayle

#7. The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

Arthur Koestler

#8. 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.

Edward Gibbon

#9. Just be careful that your determination doesn't turn into your fanaticism.

Art Hochberg

#10. 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.

Edmund Burke

#11. BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

Rob Brezsny

#12. Fanaticism means that if you're not against me, you're against me.

Gregory David Roberts

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

John Berger

#14. I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Cynthia Ozick

#15. In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

Hans Frank

#16. 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.

Nirmala Srivastava

#17. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

#18. Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#19. Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

Lin Yutang

#20. No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Cat Stevens

#22. They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

Daniel Dennett

#24. Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

Ameen Rihani

#25. 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

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#26. 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.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

Ahmed Zewail

#28. Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

#29. All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

#30. 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.

William Warburton

#31. Fanaticism leads to counterfanaticism, which is just as much to be feared.

Dalai Lama XIV

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

James Parton

#33. Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Robert Graves

#34. Books are left untouched. Fanaticism became our trait.. Now more than ever we let others feed our minds and we became the zombie society walking around without purpose, without care, without vision.

Maria

#35. I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

George Orwell

#36. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston S. Churchill

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

Farah Diba

#38. The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.

Abhijit Naskar

#39. Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

Tony Blair

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

John William Fletcher

#41. Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.

Nora Gallagher

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

Isabelle Eberhardt

#43. Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.

Jose Rizal

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

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople

#45. Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Dennis Prager

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

Baron D'Holbach

#48. It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

Lionel Blue

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

Albert Einstein

#50. Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#51. Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

Tim Sandlin

#52. Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Denis Diderot

#53. The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffler

#54. You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You have to experience, and after experiencing if you do not have faith, that means you are not honest.

Nirmala Srivastava

#55. Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

Immanuel Kant

#56. The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

Dana Schutz

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

Voltaire

#58. 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.

Margaret Sanger

#59. treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man.

Greg Iles

#60. The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#61. Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. The little fellow will grow up.

Victor Hugo

#62. Alexander was in the grip of a passion for perfection. He was not aware of how closely, how perilously, perfectionism and fanaticism are related.

Tove Jansson

#63. 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farrer

#64. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Clarence Darrow

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

Elie Wiesel

#66. 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.

Albert Ellis

#67. A fanatic is a deeply religious man with no love in his heart

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Hans Kung

#69. There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Evita Peron

#71. The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

John Calvin

#72. 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.

Arthur Miller

#73. 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.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Denis Diderot

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

Voltaire

#77. Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only you shall be able to visualize the true core of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Francis Atterbury

#79. Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it - religious fanaticism.

Clarence Darrow

#80. Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

William Cowper

#81. If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [ ... ] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist.

Zakir Naik

#82. The irony of fanaticism is that there is always another group more radical than the previous one.

Sam Fitzgerald

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

Jean Baudrillard

#84. Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Lord Acton

#86. 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.

Bertrand Russell

#87. 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.

Edward Gibbon

#88. To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

Tariq Ali

#89. A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

G.K. Chesterton

#90. The fault, of course, is not in religion, but in the fanatic of every religion. Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary times.

Wole Soyinka

#91. It's the minute fanaticism and superiority of the Almanach that offends: the chilling and narrowing of the kinship tie into something denatured and artificial.

Christopher Hitchens

#92. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

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

Alfred Korzybski

#94. It is not growing fanaticism, but growing democracy, that causes my troubles. Did you ever read the life of Averroes? He was protected by kings, but hated by the mob, which was fanatical. In the end, the mob won. Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy.

Bertrand Russell

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

William Benton Clulow

#96. For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#98. History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Paul Tillich

#99. Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet - we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.

Michele Bachmann

#100. Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

Anne Royall