“These quasi-faithful are growing in strength. They are the fundamentalists today, and they abound in all the religions.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is an undeniable need to stop candy-flossing the impact of fundamentalism. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Any theology that starts with ethnic narcissism, by default becomes the lowest form of smut on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“Extremism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs are among them.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot control it, but what is sure… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“But Curtis had come to the table with something they’d never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and out-lived in the… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“The roots of 20th century American fundamentalism can be discerned in the confluence of these two streams of immigration, culture, and history.… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“So where will the children of the future come from? Increasingly they will come from people who are at odds with the… — Philip Longman Copy Share Image
“So you raise up a few generations of young girls, telling them that they should step to the back of the bus,… — Susan Campbell Copy Share Image
“To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members… — Israel Shahak Copy Share Image
I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease.… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
“The problem with fundamentalism is that it can’t adapt to change. When you count each one of your beliefs as absolutely essential,… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“Monkeys come in all shapes and sizes, Many are white, while others are colored. Nationalism doesn't infect any one tribe, it's a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, We live our lives based on dead men's tale. It is okay to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is imperative for many branches of fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary.… — Moby Copy Share Image
The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
“It seems improbable that the American fundamentalists, who desire to see the Ten Commandments emblazoned in every schoolroom and courtroom - almost… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about… — Andrew Lias Copy Share Image
