Top 47 Religion Fanaticism Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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.
Mercedes Lackey
#4. Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been.
Lesslie Newbigin
#5. If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie
#6. 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.
Anna Jameson
#7. People who change their religion should face the death penalty.
Zakir Naik
#8. One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.
Thomas Paine
#9. Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.
Ernest Renan
#10. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco
#11. From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Salman Rushdie
#12. 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.
Voltaire
#13. I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism.
Sam Brower
#14. Faith has no use for the sword, because those who ride with the sword to defend their faith ride with the devil by their side.
Stephen R. Harrison
#15. 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.
Thaddeus Stevens
#16. 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?
Voltaire
#17. There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
Margaret Atwood
#18. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
[My Uncle Sosthenes]
Guy De Maupassant
#19. It is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.
Frances Wright
#20. There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
Bart D. Ehrman
#21. Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.
Elie Wiesel
#22. Religion only helps; until and unless it degenerates into either ritualism or fanaticism, or worse the both!
Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre
#23. If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.
Richard Rohr
#24. 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.
George Berkeley
#25. '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
#26. Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.
Mercedes Lackey
#27. 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
#28. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
#29. 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
#30. E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
James Parton
#31. Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.
Robert Graves
#32. Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
Farah Diba
#33. Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
Tony Blair
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
Voltaire
#37. People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.
Sam Harris
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
Denis Diderot
#42. 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
#43. Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
Lord Acton
#44. Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
Will Rogers
#45. Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#46. People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
Umberto Eco
#47. Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.
R.A. Torrey
