Quotes About Fanaticism

The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs.

My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

A fanatic commits to an ideal to whatever end. A fanatic throws everything aside to pursue their idea. Take something which it would be good to be committed to, like basic human rights. You might campaign for such a thing. You might spend every day of your life pursuing such a thing. But once you become fanatical about it, anything can happen.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Sok szó esik az emberek között arról, hogy némely fanatikusok szerint elközelgett a világ vége, és a jöv? kedden lesz a napja. Bármikor lesz is, készítsen fel arra valamennyiünket a jó Isten.

It's awful she's dead, obviously. But . . . Scarlet was scary. And her fans are even scarier. Every time I saw a creepy comment from one of them about how they were going to kill Jack's Mystery Girl . . . I mean, didn't that freak you out?

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

dans tout combat entre le fanatisme et le sens commun, ce dernier a rarement le dessus.

I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.

In individuals, as in society, high culture, sensibility and intelligence can, at times, coexist with the fanaticism of the torturer and the assassin. In the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns. When religion and the state become confused, freedom irremediably disappears.

El «espíritu tribal», fuente del nacionalismo, ha sido el causante, con el fanatismo religioso, de las mayores matanzas en la historia de la humanidad.

People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.

A última coisa que o chefe quer num cozinheiro de linha é um inovador, alguém com ideias próprias que irá estragar as suas receitas ou as suas apresentações. Os chefes exigem cegueira, lealdade próxima do fanatismo, costas fortes e uma consistência de autómato para executar as tarefas dentro de uma situação de combate.

The Catholic Church was the bulwark of the country's conservative forces, the foundation of what the right defined as Spanish civilization. Not surprisingly, the outside world had a fixed impression of Spain as a deeply religious country. The jest of the Basque philosopher Unamuno, that in Spain even atheists were Catholic, was taken seriously. Centuries of fanatical superstition enforced by the Inquisition had engraved this image on European minds.

I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse!

I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse! If I may imitate Romain Rolland, a country that tolerates evil means — evil manners, standards of ethics — for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

Jesus prophesied that "In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God." (John 16:2)

Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!