Quotes About Fanaticism

Even in Bengal, where I had spent most of my growing years, this sect (which was established there in the fifteenth century A.D.) did not display the sort of fanatic trancelike madness that we witnessed on Oxford Street or on the stage of 'Hair'.

Ata që nuk do të arsyetojnë, janë fanatikë, ata që nuk munden, janë të marrë, dhe ata që nuk guxojnë, janë skllevër.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to sympathize with their proper needs nor humility enough to respect them as if they were his own. Arrogance, fanaticism, meddlesomeness, and imperialism may then masquerade as philanthropy.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Blind zeal can only do harm.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derrière.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

If there were no fanaticism in the world, it would make much more progress than it does now. It is a mistake to think that fanaticism can make for the progress of mankind. On the contrary, it is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic. We

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.

In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.

I've always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing up.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.