The way people reacted to me in dressing rooms and so on was incredibly aggressive. They know every record and they seem… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Any religious fanaticism is worse than the lack of belief in any gods. — Richard John Mattley Copy Share Image
When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." [ My Uncle Sosthenes ]” — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“I give no shit to what extent they believe in superstitions and fanaticism. But I will fight till death, if their fallacious… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs, which have always caused hatred, bloodshed… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“He was a dog, without a shadow of a doubt. But in human form. The quality of doggishness is an inner quality… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of… — Jurgen Habermas 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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word. — James Parton Copy Share Image
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
