Quotes About Fanaticism

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

Me hacía gracia Pérez Nuix, con sus ideas exageradas y peregrinas, con su apasionamiento y su rotundidad, en el fanatismo hay siempre entusiasmo, por eso es tan peligroso y contagioso, todo lo pinta muy simple y eso atrae a las multitudes. La templanza y la moderación no prenden, o les cuesta un mundo, años en lugar de días.

Cuanto más despersonalizado un grupo, menos reflexivo y más sordo y ciego, más granítico y más fanático. Hay algo religioso en todos ellos, heredan enemigos y veneraciones y creencias que jamás cuestiona nadie, esa es su fuerza.

La crueldad es contagiosa. El odio es contagioso. La fe es contagiosa… Se convierte en fanatismo a la velocidad del rayo… —Ahora el tono era mitad asertivo, mitad rememorativo—. Por eso encierran tanto peligro, por eso son difíciles de parar. Cuando uno quiere percatarse, ya se han propagado como un incendio en el bosque

el fanatismo hay siempre entusiasmo, por eso es tan peligroso y contagioso, todo lo pinta muy simple y eso atrae a las multitudes.

Do not allow yourselves to be cajoled into supposing that political apathy is dangerous. Dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin are raised to power, not by apathy, but by mass fanaticism.

experience has proved the distinction of active and passive courage. The fanatic who endures without a groan the torture of the rack or the state would tremble and fly before the face of an armed enemy.

when men believed too strongly, it made them cruel.

Attention ! Ce sont les croyants béats comme vous, les naïfs, les dévoreurs d'écrits humanitaires, les calvinistes de l'idée, qui élèvent les guillotines.

En los tumultos populares hay siempre cierto número de hombres que, o por acaloramiento de pasión, o por persuasión fanática, o por un designio malvado, o por un perverso gusto del desorden, hacen todo lo posible por llevar las cosas al peor extremo; proponen o promueven los consejos más despiadados, soplan en el fuego cada vez que empieza a languidecer: nunca es demasiado para ellos; no querrían que el tumulto tuviera fin ni medida.

Exista de cand lumea o categorie de oropsitori ai vietii, fanatici care interzic fericirea, osandesc placerea, detesta rasul si persecuta inteligenta. Ei obtin întotdeauna stima imbecililor si izbutesc recurent sa instaleze o forma sau alta de teroare.

Various forms of religious madness are quite common in the United States.

To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

There's people out there that are like, 'Oh my God, I want to have your kid. I want to marry you.' People that I've never even met. That's sweet. It's funny.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.