An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“I asked what we must do about intolerance and fanaticism which was flaring all around the world. "Education and wider contacts are… — Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams Copy Share Image
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“My belief is that, the mystics will never be happy nor sad because I took their side. Indeed, this is the right… — Mwanandeke Kindembo 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
“Think of people you consider fanatical. They’re overbearing, self-righteous, opinionated, insensitive, and harsh. Why? It’s not because they are too Christian but… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them.… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“Think of people you consider fanatical. They're overbearing, self-righteous, opinionated, insensitive, and harsh. Why? It's not because they are too Christian, it's… — Timothy Keller (Author Copy Share Image
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas… — Voltaire 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
Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that… — Orson Scott Card 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
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding.… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“{ From Lindsey's address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank . Burbank was one of the most beloved people in… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest—that it is there for everyone to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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