Quotes About Fanaticism

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

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

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for wealth, increases by acquisition, but as Bishop Lee has told us, "Knowledge without common sense is folly; without method it is waste; without kindness it is fanaticism; without religion it is death." But, Dean Farrar added: "With common sense, it is wisdom; with method it is power; with charity beneficence; with religion it is virtue, life, and peace.

disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

The kamikaze thus relied on combining state-of-the-art technology with state-of-the-art religious indoctrination.