Quotes About Fundamentalism

The fundamentalist (or, more accurately, the beleaguered individual who comes to embrace fundamentalism) cannot stand freedom. He cannot find his way into the future, so he retreats to the past. He returns in imagination to the glory days of his race and seeks to reconstitute both them and himself in their purer, more virtuous light. He gets back to basics. To fundamentals.

Fundamentalism and art are mutually exclusive. There is no such thing as fundamentalist art.

When fundamentalism wins, the world enters a dark age.

Enemies are somewhere else, as the fighting is almost always "over there," with Islamic fundamentalism now replacing Russian and Chinese communism as the implacable, furtive menace. And "terrorist" is a more flexible word than "communist." It can unify a larger number of quite different struggles and interests. What this may mean is that the war will be endless---since there will always be some terrorism.

Neo-liberal market fundamentalism was always a political doctrine serving certain interests. It was never supported by economic theory. Nor, it should now be clear, is it supported by historical experience.

The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and thei callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

To believe that market competition curbs the excesses of big, powerful corporations demands a leap of faith that history does not support. It's a peculiar form of market fundamentalism that I can no longer embrace.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

Mysticism," he likes to say, "is the antidote to fundamentalism.

Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.

How in the world could there be any science in scripture. There cannot be because the two historical periods are separated by so much. (Modern science began in 2000 AD and the scriptures were written BC, well before that). The scriptures are NOT teaching science. It's very hard for me to accept not just a literal interpretation of scripture but a fundamentalist approach to religious belief. It's kind of a play, It presents itself as science.

The fundamentalism that drove them was a cancer. It infected almost everyone it touched. And yet the people best positioned to remove the cancer lacked the courage and the desire to do so. No matter how many atrocities were committed in the name of their religion and their God, the Muslim world was wholly incapable of combating the problem.

Según él, las almas ególatras como la de ella son incomprendidas e incluso odiadas por los fundamentalistas de la normalidad, que carecen de la fortaleza espiritual necesaria para poner en práctica el feroz narcisismo que deben poseer los humanos intelectualmente superiores.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism.