Quotes About Zealotry

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

Mainly due to social media," replied Brad. "It's the most divisive technology the world has ever seen. It's polarizing and promotes our worst tendencies. Mistrust, tribalism, zealotry. And it fosters and aids in the mobilization of those intent on violence.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus PÅ«nd]

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

The ideology of progress, which has been with us in various forms since the Enlightenment, explains their confident zealotry. It also explains why so many ordinary people who aren't especially engaged by politics find it hard to say no to SJW demands.

Self-sacrifice can sometimes be a well-honed weapon that the fanatic wields for destructive emotional purposes. Moreover, those who are eager to sacrifice themselves will not find it difficult to sacrifice others.

Muy a menudo, el fanático sólo puede contar hasta uno, ya que dos es un número demasiado grande para él o ella. Al mismo tiempo, descubriremos que, a menudo, los fanáticos son sentimentales sin remedio.

The fanatic is always in a hurry to fall on your neck to save you, because he loves you. He loves you unconditionally. But, conversely, he might grab you and strangle you if he discovers that you are beyond redemption. Lost. And if that is the case, he is obliged to hate you and rid the world of you.

Fanaticism ... is contagious: a person may catch it even as he fights to cure other people of it. There is no shortage of anti-fanaticism fanatics in the world. All sorts of crusades to stop jihad, and jihads to subjugate the new crusaders. This includes the zeal so prevalent in Israel and in the West these days to deliver a knockout blow that will finish off all the bloodthirsty fanatics and anyone like them once and for all. To eradicate every last bastion of zealotry.

Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything—anything—be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.

The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejection--the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel.

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

Kill them all. God will recognize his own.

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.

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

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

Jesus prophesied that "In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God." (John 16:2)