Quotes About Fanaticism

And so I did not try. De Clare was a lost soul; I had seen too clearly the glint of obsession in his eyes. It was the expression worn by fanatics and evangelists the world over, the dogged determination to see only one point of view and entertain no truths but the fantasy in one's own mind. He would see this thing through to the end, no matter how many people it destroyed.

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

Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme, aujourd'hui dans les intégrismes religieux, abolissant tout esprit critique et alimentant le fanatisme. Le pire devient alors possible. Particulièrement réticents à l'embrigadement, les jeunes devraient, par chance, nous éviter la réédition de pareilles horreurs.

enthousiasmes militants qui, portés aux extrêmes, entraînent une abnégation absolue pour la Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme,

Blood from your veins?" she repeated faintly. It sounded horrid. It offended her ears. It had nothing to do with the advertisement. The strange light in his eyes made her think of fanaticism, cruelty, and the Middle Ages. The mildest of men in general, as she found later on, rabidness seized him at the mere mention of Jews.

growth is limited by their fanaticism. They belong mostly to the

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.

I was as staunch a Rangers supporter as any wee boy could be without being bigoted. We did a lot of stupid things. We sang the songs, but with no real feeling, and didn't have a clue what we were singing about.

If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.

We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

There is an amazing craze for cricket in India.

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

They were the understanding eyes of kindly folk who burned witches alive to save their souls.

As for the second notion, the idea that we could lose our freedom by succumbing to a wave of religious hysteria, I am sorry to say that I consider it possible. I hope that it is not probable. But there is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in this our culture; it is rooted in our history

Fundamentalist science is similar to other fundamentalisms. Lacking humor, charity and some measure of self-doubt, it behaves intolerantly, fanatically and savagely to all heretics. Eventually, like all closed ideological systems, it becomes comical and overtly ridiculous — and that shall be my main demonstration.

It seems that when any model becomes an Idol its advocates begin to act like priests and inquisitors.

Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.

As with many religious fundamentalists, business for her was part of the religion; the two dogmas were mutually reinforcing, part of the same system. Reason had nothing to do with it.

There have been mass delusions larger than this," I said, "following a fanatic leader.