Quotes About Fanaticism

I have observed that religion is not restraining in a moral see. Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan.

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

Montaigne is the sworn enemy of all responsibility. He strives to dodge decisions. Solitary sage in a time of mass fanaticism, he seeks seclusion and flight.

el hombre que pugna por seguir siendo él mismo, simplemente él mismo, en medio de una catarata de fanatismo y destrucción.

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In such epochs where the highest values of life—our peace, our independence, our basic rights, all that makes our existence more pure, more beautiful, all that justifies it—are sacrificed to the demon inhabiting a dozen fanatics and ideologues, all the problems of the man who fears for his humanity come down to the same question: how to remain free?

Les monomaniques de tout poil, les gens qui sont possédés par une seule idée m'ont toujours spécialement intrigué, car plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l'infini.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

You would think that people who had experienced injustice would be loath to inflict it on others, and yet they do so with alacrity. The victims become victimizers with a chilling righteousness. This is the nature of fanaticism, to attract and provoke extremes of behavior. And this is why fanatics are all the same, whatever specific form their fanaticism takes.

You would think that people who had experienced injustice would be loath to inflict it on others, and yet they do so with alacrity. The victims become the victimizers with a chilling righteousness. This is the nature of fanaticism, to attract and provoke extremes of behavior. And this is why fanatics are all the same, whatever specific form their fanaticism takes.

The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

That tells us something, at least. They weren't true believers, not radicals. This wasn't ISIS or Al Qaeda or any of their cancerous branches. They were mercenaries for hire.

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. If

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

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

Take it from the former pastor: The true believers are the ones who'll burn you the worst.

We've all become god's madmen, all of us.