“Why is it that, for one religion to be true, all other religions have to be false!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Rain doesn't check bank balance, soil doesn't require DNA test - breath doesn't ask for proof of residence, medicine doesn't require faith… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
We must first be able to look honestly at fundamentalism in our own backyard, if we are to have any hope of… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Many reporters have gone to Tea Party rallies looking for expressions of bigotry. What they have tended to find instead is a… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are… — Warren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Be a human being and you'd automatically be religious, but if you try to be a scripture-worm then you'd be neither religious,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions,… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“In theocratic societies, adherence to fundamentalism may enhance the fitness of fundamentalists, as opposed to nonfundamentalists, because fundamentalists are more likely to… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
“Clarence Darrow," the New York Times proclaimed in its lead story, "bearded the lion of Fundamentalism today, faced William Jennings Bryan and… — Edward J. Larson Copy Share Image
You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know,… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The world has plenty room for everyone, but no world is room enough for the bigot.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Faith can be unholy, science can be inhuman, none depends on the tool, all depends on the person.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Divinity in its purest form requires no imagination or hallucination. It sustains itself simply with the conscientious powers of your mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
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