Top Fanaticism Quotes

Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said as much to Edward. To reprint Nazi propaganda and to make a theocratic...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...

Fanaticism Definition

(n.) Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had r...

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.

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? Sacrifice for what? Demand what sort of order? He d...

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans.

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order t...

Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

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

When facts are treated as if they were opinions, when there is no universal standard by which to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in the reporting of events of the day, the world...

The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrag...

I, for example, recently finished writing an article about the latest wave of home-grown Islamic suicide-murderers. It was impossible not to notice one thing that their profiles and Web sites had in c...

Haters are your most dedicated fans: ordinary fans can be disappointed in you or can get tired of you etc. but haters never.

I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious belief hurts any individual.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?