Quotes About Fanaticism

People have actually had my face tattooed on to their bodies, which is so odd.

I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity.

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.

Of course, the Nazi movement was unique in terms of its killing machines and its policy of rounding up millions of people in order to systematically murder them. Nonetheless, the Nazi form of cultism has close resemblances to that of other political and religious groups, and leaves no doubt about cultist capacities for infinite murderousness.

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

Extremism in defense of virtue is no vice.

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.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

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

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.

One cannot exchange ideas with a rational person any more than one can argue with a religious fanatic.

There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.

It's people with obsessions who do the real harm in the world.

a false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

What galls me is that these sadists always have fans and followers-- and sincere ones at that. The typical example of this is Toscanini.

Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.

There's a fine line between piety and wack-ass obsession, and people have been landing on the wrong side for thousands of years.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Nothing is quite so dangerous as a religious fanatic who thinks he's doing the Lord's will.

Diese Leute, ob sie nun von rechts oder links anmarschieren, wollen die Blutvergiftung heilen, indem sie dem Patienten mit einem Beil den Kopf abschlagen. Allerdings wird die Blutvergiftung dabei aufhören, zu existieren, aber auch der Patient, und das heißt, die Therapie zu weit treiben.

Nad ei taha poliitikat. Nad tahavad usu aseainet. /--/ Nad tahavad jälle kedagi uskuda. Mida, on täitsa ükskõik. Sellepärast nad ongi nii fanaatilised.