Fanaticism Quotes

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— Erdem Gezer

The fanatic is dangerous.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Ideology and religion are contraindicated for fanatics.

— Ilkin Santak

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

— Carl Jung

A noble person stands up as though a theater curtain rises.

— Ilkin Santak

“Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt”

— Robertson Davies

There are two types of egoism high and primitive.

— Ilkin Santak

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

— Joseph Hall

“One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.”

— Anonymous

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

— Douglas Murray

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

— James Parton

Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

— Starhawk

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

— Umberto Eco

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

— Lionel Blue

“Fanaticism must be put to death and allow reason to prevail over ignorance.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.”

— Robert E. Howard

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

— George Santayana

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to…

— Lord Acton

Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate…

— Ilkin Santak

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two…

— Fareed Zakaria

The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but…

— Adolf Hitler

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

— Voltaire

Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because…

— Ilkin Santak

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

— Albert Einstein

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I…

— Bertrand Russell

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and…

— Anonymous

'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is…

— Austin Farrer

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by…

— Frances Wright

“He was a dog, without a shadow of a doubt. But in human form. The quality of doggishness is an inner quality…

— Bruno Schulz

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point…

— Marquis de Sade

“To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the…

— Victor Hugo

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be…

— Jon Krakauer

We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or…

— Robert Conquest

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

— Evita Peron

No one has right to vote on issue he is not familiar with.

— Ilkin Santak

The destiny of my state is not my destiny.

— Ilkin Santak

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

— Dalai Lama

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

— Samuel Smiles

No ideology could resist capital until now.

— Ilkin Santak