Quotes About Fanaticism

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.

Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well.

Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and sour the temper...A gloomy hair-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar, but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delerious and dismal as himself.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

You can behead people, you can crucify them, you can cut their hearts out and eat them on YouTube...but, don't screw with the place where God hid America's oil.

It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.