Fanaticism Quotes

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others di...

In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichr...

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious convictio...

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result...

Like Pascal, Nietzsche, and Simone Weil, Kierkegaard is one of those writers whom it is very difficu...

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures do...

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect...

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

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology h...

Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the d...

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

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

If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may...

Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanatic...

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."]

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fana...

If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of jus...

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

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

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

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

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

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

The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to...

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.