Quotes About Fanaticism

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism give place to philosophy.) Kings persecute persons, priests opinion. Without kings, men must be safe; and without priests, minds must be free.

Who shall argue with the most stubborn of all bigotries, — the fanaticism of unbelief?

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.

Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.

en el individuo fanático que tan sólo se fija en aquello que confirma lo que él cree y apenas percibe cuanto pueda ponerlo en entredicho, y comprenderás lo que tus creencias suponen para ti.

What is scripture, then? It's a hint, a clue, not a description. The fanaticism of one sincere believer who thinks he knows causes more evil than the united efforts of two hundred rogues. It's terrifying to see what sincere believers will do because they think they know.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus PÅ«nd]

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.

And again he remembered the vision of fanatic legions following the green and black banner of the Atreides, pillaging and burning across the universe in the name of their prophet Muad'Dib. That must not happen, he told himself.

people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.

We held signs that said 'Thank God For Dead Soldiers,' 'Thank God For IEDs.'

Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one are dangerous. Such conviction is the essence not only of dogmatism, but of its more destructive cousin, fanaticism. It blocks off the user from learning new truth, and it is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. The person then has to double his or her protests in order to quiet not only the opposition but his or her own unconscious doubts as well.

The neophyte scientist, recently come or converted to the world view of science, can be every bit as fanatical as a Christian crusader or a soldier of Allah.

Fanatics tend to live in a black-and-white world, with a simplistic view of good against evil. The fanatic is in fact a person who can only count to one. Yet at the same time, and without any contradiction, the fanatic almost always basks in some sort of bittersweet sentimentalism, composed of a mixture of fury and self-pity.

Il compromesso è considerato come una mancanza di integrità, di dirittura morale, di consistenza, di onestà. Il compromesso puzza, è disonesto. Non nel mio vocabolario. Nel mio mondo, la parola compromesso è sinonimo di vita. E dove c'è vita ci sono compromessi. Il contrario di compromesso non è integrità e nemmeno idealismo e nemmeno determinazione o devozione. Il contrario di compromesso è fanatismo.

Self-sacrifice can sometimes be a well-honed weapon that the fanatic wields for destructive emotional purposes. Moreover, those who are eager to sacrifice themselves will not find it difficult to sacrifice others.