Quotes About Fanaticism

Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.

I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two "lost" episodes they did for German television.)

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.

The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

People are so passionate about their favourite artists making it to number 1, it almost reminds me of football fanaticism. Nowadays, it's 'One Direction' vs 'The Wanted.' Back in my day, it was 'Oasis' vs 'Blur'.

I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

There are few catastrophes so great and irremediable as those that follow an excess of zeal.

Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service.

The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

I don't think the upper 1 or 0.1 percent were ever tearing their hair out about Trump. They were ecstatic that somebody that right-wing, and that bigoted, came with a built-in fan base -- a cult following, even -- that you could never build from scratch with a Jeb Bush or a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio. Behind the scenes, they love this stuff. They think they can get away with so much more.