Quotes About Zealotry

People who believe themselves to be True patriots tend to be zealots. Zealots, in my opinion are one short step from being lunatics.

To truly pull off proper apathy about the stuff (money) would require so much energy, such contrived ideological zealotry, that the indifference would amount to a kind of caring.

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

The fanatic is certain that he is right.

El hombre nunca hace el mal tan completa y alegremente como cuando lo hace por convicción religiosa. Dijo Pascal.

the very first thing that happens with any zealot is that he removes his brain just in case any thoughts that might challenge his zealotry should happen to stray into it.

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

What reeducation had taught me was that dedicated communists were like dedicated capitalists, incapable of nuance.

You think you're fighting for freedom. Freedom is dangerous. Give humankind freedom, and they will inevitably fall into chaos and war, religious zealotry and senseless violence. We have kept the peace. And we've done it by giving the people what they need, when they need it. Not what they want. Want is nothing but blind and selfish greed.

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

Fanatikler rüyalar?nda kendi mezheplerinden olanlara cennet kap?lar?n? açar.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, "the cause" is greater than all things.

What people do in the name of religion is not necessarily religious. It often has baser reasons behind it.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Fanaticism is the shortest path to ignorance.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Is it possible to be so blinded by your own doctrine that you would actually take human life in God's name and think you are doing Him a service?