“I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!" It must be… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism:… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ drives the psyche of mentally… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life.… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, "sensible" religion may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“When “fundamentalism” takes root within a religious movement, emphasis shifts away from love of God and love of neighbor in order to… — Aaron Milavec Copy Share Image
“By ignoring the apparent contradictions of scripture, fundamentalism ignores its questions, reducing its complexity to implicit equations. Hate equals love; obedience is… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their… — Mel White Copy Share Image
“These preachers and priests are no more religious and wise than the parrot that keeps repeating the same words over and over… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalists thrive in times of rapid social change. Fundamentalists generally champion emotionally charged issues that can be reduced to unambiguous black and… — Aaron Milavec Copy Share Image
Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We've evolved from the jungle, violence is in our DNA. That's not up for debate, it's a biological fact. Question is, will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that, the idea of religion has been filled by the human society with all sorts of garbage, and thus… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image