Fanaticism Quotes · Page 7

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

— Franklin P. Jones

When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs.

— Ilkin Santak

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

— Anonymous

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

— Paulo Coelho

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

— Alfred Korzybski

Accurate presentation of thoughts through the correct expressions of words - is an art accumulated for years.

— Ilkin Santak

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent…

— Hans Kung

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to…

— George Berkeley

The old generations have thrown themselves into the abyss between the generations... to be resurrected among the young generations!

— Ilkin Santak

The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do…

— Ilkin Santak

It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians…

— Ilkin Santak

Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice…

— Ilkin Santak

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and…

— Elie Wiesel

“Absolutism, in both religious and political idealism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete…

— Gustav Niebuhr

All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut…

— Sri Aurobindo

Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States of America are more of a concept than a historically evolved geographical conclusion, compared to European countries. I find…

— Josephine Meckseper

The way people reacted to me in dressing rooms and so on was incredibly aggressive. They know every record and they seem…

— Nick Cave

We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That…

— Os Guinness

It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,…

— Camille Flammarion

“The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end…

— Swami Vivekananda

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

— Gregory David Roberts

“I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism.”

— Sam Brower

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Person, who could not go through the change of ages and got stuck in the old times, is like a fish thrown…

— Ilkin Santak

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

— Carl Sagan

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

— Adlai Stevenson I

You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone.

— Ilkin Santak

If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on.

— Ilkin Santak

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

— Will Rogers

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

— Storm Jameson

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

— John William Fletcher

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a…

— Cynthia Ozick