Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance. — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Don't make of your religion an obsession, otherwise your trips to church will mean nothing but obligation; and your prayers will result… — Jean Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The negative side of democracy is that the position of ideological minorities is not in power. However, the ideological minorities are often… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“My current comes from spinning particles, my compass points to where no map can lead - I won't fit inside insect colonies… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming…(some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
What the world needs is more compassion; love in the broad sense, and use of practical reason to solve human problems. What… — Massimo Pigliucci 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
Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules. — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Aristocracy of the soul cannot be denied because of the blind equality. We can get lost due to ideas about equality. If… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the… — Ilkin Santak 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
The argument is the worst sort of conversation. Fanaticism is the worst of destructive words. If you nothing to say , say nothing. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“The planet pulses in my blood vessels, I cannot fit into a monkey's passport. Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness, I cannot fit… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image