Quotes About Fanaticism

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it. —DRAIGO ROGET, report to Venport Holdings, "Analysis of Fanatical Patterns

En el Diccionario del diablo, Ambrose Bierce escribió que «la definición de fanatismo es redoblar tus esfuerzos después de que tu objetivo haya sido olvidado».

The price of purity is purists.

One day he came home to find her burning his collection of heavy-metal CDs, which she had taken to calling "devil wafers." She

This is not a well person. This is a man who put a shock collar on your husband, a man who gets high off frog slime. He's done things you don't want to know about, probably even killed people.' 'At least he believes in something.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us—then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

cuando hierve el fanatismo a nuestro alrededor, los hábitos de pensamiento familiares de épocas antiguas toman el control.

El fanatismo, el temor, la esperanza, el ardiente debate, la oración callada, la generosidad ejemplar, la intolerancia estrecha de miras y la necesidad profunda de nuevas ideas, todo era como una epidemia que recorría febrilmente la superficie del minúsculo planeta Tierra.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Sometimes lunatics are so driven, they can take the whole world into madness with them.

He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...

I know what it's like to scream when you see Justin Timberlake in person because I've done it.

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest—that it is there for everyone to see, if only he wants to see it—this theory is the basis of almost every kind of fanaticism. For only the most depraved wickedness can refuse to see the manifest truth; only those who have reason to fear truth conspire to suppress it.

Comme tout les rêves, celui de l'égalitarisme présuppose un monde fragmentaire, fait exclusivement de braves gens qui ne songent qu'à pétrir leur pain en traquilité sans être molestés ni par les loups ni par les dieux ; or les loups sont dans les "braves gens" eux-mêmes, et quant aux dieux fauteur de "fanatisme", il suffit de les mettre en veilleuse pour que les diables viennent les remplacer.

After a time, Fogelin shifted into writing and editing manuals. Often lampooned, these texts, if studied with a fanaticism ordinarily reserved for the Bible, revealed a multitude of secrets.

The Barbary powers, with their mixture of greed, religious fanaticism, and self-interest, would not listen to reason. They

Abitha could see that these people believed, truly believed, that they were doing God's work here this day. And there was something about these people that horrified Abitha even worse than those whose faces were lined with cruelty. As at least cruelty was a thing that could be pointed out, confronted. But this belief, this absolute conviction that this evil they were doing was good, was God's work—how, she wondered, how could such a dark conviction ever be overcome?

Es obvio que los seres humanos poseen una gran capacidad para aferrarse a las falsas creencias con fanatismo y tenacidad, y los científicos racionalistas no son ninguna excepción.

Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.

What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do! They think me mad -- Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! - Capt. Ahab.