Quotes of: Fanaticism Keyword

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Dennis Prager

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Robertson Davies

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

Lionel Blue

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

Julian Baggini

If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice, those whom he calls heretics, that is, people who think, or perhaps only speak, differently upon a subject which neither party understands, he w...

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

Cat Stevens

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

Bahá'u'lláh

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Wendell Phillips

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

Anna Jameson

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

Gustave Flaubert

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Hans Kung

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

G.K. Chesterton

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

John Berger