Quotes About Fanaticism

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

There was something pretentious about politics when it was taken to extremes.

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.

the cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.

The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything. In this century, 'anything' has included Hitler, Stalin and Mao, authors of the great genocidal madnesses of our time.

Hatred and violence masked in righteousness is the worst kind of delusion

Bu stresin alt?nda ezilenler için ak?l rahats?zl???na s???nmaktan ba?ka çare gözükmüyordu ki, zaman?n ?artlar? ile bu fanatik dincili?e döndü. Kara Ölüm'ün ilk günlerinde toplu sapk?nl?k, kendini ?ehir ?ehir dola?an binlerce k?rbaçç? tarikatlarda gösterdi. Sonra salg?n?n yay?lmas?ndan Yahudiler sorumlu tutuldu.

Not everyone was laughing. Ascribing "incapacity, stupidity, imbecility, gross ignorance and habitual venality" to the stalemated Congress, the New York Herald angrily concluded that "no remedy whatever is to be looked for from their representatives." Sounding eerily like President Buchanan in his December annual message, it blamed not Southern extremism but "republican fanaticism" for the current "avalanche of destruction.

In my psychological studies," Jones explained, "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.

Whenever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.

The evidence, unfortunately, is that the West is not even remotely interested in mounting a defense of its values in the face of Muslim fanaticism. Worse, there are signs that the West is even prepared to sacrifice some of its core values in order to appease those who have always despised these values.

Fanatics can never draw out the good in people. They will go to war I predict. They will raise armies, invade, and pillage because it is only aggression that will keep their cause alive. Fighting an enemy is always easier than governing human complexity.

Sometimes fans land up at my home. Some time ago an 80-year-old lady from Chandigarh came home and wrote off her property to me. I had to hire legal help to get rid of the unwanted gift.

God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.

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

People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

Perhaps we can think of fundamentalism as a stifling, an asphyxiation, and constipation of the soul.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion—that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.

that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.