Quotes About Fanaticism

If you want to make your enemy into something you can hate, you first remove his humanity.... Had Ulrich said that at one point, or had that been something he'd heard during one of Solaris' speeches? It was true, whoever had said it, and the Chronicles had certainly tried to remove all vestige of humanity from these Heralds. Make them only icons. When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp—and hate.

It wasn't Islamic fundamentalists. We have our own fanatics right here at home.

The people who set off the bombs think it does. They think they're doing God's work." "That's a perversion of everything that Christianity stands for.

There is no cause so hopeless, no creed so mad, no idea so ludicrous that it will not attract some believers

It is not growing fanaticism, but growing democracy, that causes my troubles. Did you ever read the life of Averroes? He was protected by kings, but hated by the mob, which was fanatical. In the end, the mob won. Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy.

La convicción de que es importante creer esto o aquello, incluso aunque un examen objetivo no apoye la creencia, es común a casi todas las religiones e inspira todos los sistemas de educación estatal. La consecuencia es que las mentes de los jóvenes no se desarrollan y se llenan de hostilidad fanática hacia los que detentan otros fanatismos y, aún con más virulencia, hacia los contrarios a todos los fanatismos.

The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

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Marea problem? cu lumea este c? proÈ™tii È™i fanaticii sunt întotdeauna foarte siguri pe ei, în timp ce oamenii mai înÈ›elepÈ›i, sunt plini de dubii.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.

In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.

When fundamentalism wins, the world enters a dark age.

and there are more things in this world than just your qi and ego. Lao-tzu understood this when he claimed that his three treasures were frugality, compassion, and humility. Avoid fanaticism by following Lao-tzu's example.

Today the intellectual leaders of the Republican Party are the paranoids, kooks, know-nothings, and bigots who once could be heard only on late-night talk shows, the stations you listened to on long drives because it was hard to fall asleep while laughing. When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team.

All Republicans want to do is beat the team playing the Giants. They aren't voters using active intelligence or participants in a civil democracy; they are fans. Their role is to cheer and fund their team and trash-talk whatever team is on the other side.

When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team. Asking the Republican Party today to agree on a definition of conservatism is like asking New York Giants fans to have a consensus opinion on the Law of the Sea Treaty. It's not just that no one knows anything about the subject; they don't remotely care.

It isn't money that moves the world," she wrote to Crane in 1966. "It is faith, conviction, ardor, fanaticism in action.

la paranoia aguda se desarrolla muy deprisa entre los líderes fanáticos.

Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

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

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

Whatever ignorance, pride or fanaticism may suggest to the contrary, Esoteric Cosmology can be shown inseparably connected with both philosophy and modern science. The gods of the ancients, the monads--from Pythagoras down to Leibnitz--and the atoms of the present materialistic school (as borrowed by them from the theories of the old Greek Atomists) are only a compound unit, or a graduated unity like the human frame, which begins with body and ends with spirit.

Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.