Quotes About Fanaticism

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

As is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, "the cause" is greater than all things.

I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

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

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make an enemy of and have to eliminate everything that goes against them.

The State is of the religion of all its citizens without the fanaticism of any of them.

What people do in the name of religion is not necessarily religious. It often has baser reasons behind it.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Cruelty lurks in our instincts, and fanaticism is a camouflage for cruelty. Fanatics are seldom genuinely humane, and those who sincerely dread cruelty will be slow to adopt a fanatical creed. . . .

Bellatrix Lestrange