Quotes About Fanaticism

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

The terrorist organizations were an enemy with philosophies of political and religious fanaticism leaving no room for compromise or peace. As far as Elizabeth was concerned, the world would be a better place if they were all destroyed. If

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

But there was no understanding an ideology this rabid, this diseased. Who could understand a woman who would strap a bomb on a child and send him or her into a crowded square?

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

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.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

You've been watching Sons of Anarchy, haven't you?" Pic asked, sighing heavily. Cody swallowed, then nodded. "Fucking show. Whole damned world thinks they're Jax Teller.

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.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Fear prophets 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.

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

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

My dad was the biggest Alabama fan ever, and I was brainwashed.

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

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

I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch 'Empire.'

Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven't got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things... for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things.

You can't get much more egregiously wrong and wicked than the views expressed by al-Muhajiroun.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.