Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming…(some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
What the world needs is more compassion; love in the broad sense, and use of practical reason to solve human problems. What… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules. — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“What is a fanatic? One who believes passionately and acts desperately upon what he believes. I was always believing in something and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“If someone tells you that pleasure is wrong and tolerance is weakness, and that you must follow this or that dogma blindly… — Seth Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The negative side of democracy is that the position of ideological minorities is not in power. However, the ideological minorities are often… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“My current comes from spinning particles, my compass points to where no map can lead - I won't fit inside insect colonies… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Person who does not feel every cell of his body and who does not find his soul in every cell of his… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Manipulation of mass consciousness is based on the percolation of the required ideas under the values widespread in society. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is… — Oscar Ostlund Copy Share Image
“... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
There is no necessity to beware of atheist, beware of that believer who once finds out that god does not exist and… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“It's of no consequence, what the monkeys feel; xenophobia belongs in DSM, not in democracy. Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran, all are welcome,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image