Quotes About Fanaticism

Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood.

The careerists win everywhere, believe me! Hassan's fanaticism was a career to him. Killing was his corporate job. The apocalypse was how he planned to corner the market.

Still, a fanatic heart will ignore what it does not want to know," said Minasao. "It will excuse even that which cannot be excused in the need to find someone to share its bitterness.

War, pestilence, famine, environmental collapse; vast migrations and fanaticism of every stripe; a world de-civilized as the earth's peoples, sworn to competing gods, turned upon one another:

The Walking Dead' is my show. I download it from iTunes so that I can watch it the second it comes out. It's a show that I've got really involved in, emotionally.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it." [As quoted in The New Yorker , April 25, 2011]

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

With terrorists, whether al-Fatah or Black September or the new, supposedly religious breed, the rage and the hatred come first.

Mate, it ain't violence if it's religion.

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

You're still trapped in that blind worship of the intellect. . . . . . Something about her zeal repels me, even though I do respect her. There's a germ of fanaticism in that fierce enthusiasm to save the world and redeem mankind—a touch of coercion and relentlessness that's frightening to me. She wants to fight evil or what she sees as evil—but couldn't that combativeness degenerate into an evil itself? My intellect asks that question and I can't silence it.

After the third episode of 'The Mandalorian,' I knew I had to make my own Baby Yoda.

Muslim extremists and their gunmen, of what could be called the Koran Kalashnikov Klan (KKK), as fanatical as white supremacists in the Ku Klux Klan, are seen as a mortal danger.

All fanatics loathe the questioning mind and fear the truth.

In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something … fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve. And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point.

Those who knew but one path would come to worship it, even as it led to a cliff's edge.

Fanaticism was so popular. There had to be a reason for that, didn't there? Some vast reward to the end of thinking, some great bliss to the blessing of idiocy.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

Human life is bounded by two chasms: fanaticism on one side, absolute skepticism on the other.

I regimi criminali non furono creati da criminali ma da entusiasti, convinti di aver scoperto l'unica strada per il paradiso. Essi difesero con coraggio questa strada, giustiziando per questo molte persone. In seguito, fu chiaro che il paradiso non esisteva e che gli entusiasti erano quindi degli assassini.

Mladost je užasna; to je pozornica po kojoj na visokim štulama i u najrazli?itijim kostimima hodaju djeca i izgovaraju nau?ene rije?i koje tek napola razumiju, ali kojima su fanati?no odani.

Los extremos son la frontera tras la cual termina la vida y la pasión por el extremismo en el arte y en la política es una velada ansia de muerte

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.