Fundamentalism Quotes

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.

— Jeff Sharlet

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

— Terry Pratchett

“Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.

— William J. Clinton

“Blind faith is not real religion my friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

— Ernest Gellner

“The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Scriptures are to religion, what sci-fi comic-books are to innovation.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

— Mark Thomas

“The God of fundamentalism is an idol projected from our fears and anxieties to defeat those we consider enemies.”

— Jeffrey C. Pugh

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

— Starhawk

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

— Karen Armstrong

“Never let parasites nest in your brain, whether they come waving the flag of intolerant religion or intolerant reason.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Umberto Eco

“If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is…

— Abhijit Naskar

We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members…

— Israel Shahak

I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease.…

— Ninian Smart

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

— Pope Francis

The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot control it, but what is sure…

— Marine Le Pen

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women…

— Alexander Haig

Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or…

— Thomas Sowell

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and…

— Adam McKay

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put…

— Ann Coulter

I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's…

— Ian MacKaye

A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Religion and ethics were not always—or even frequently—mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the…

— Dan Simmons

There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing.…

— J. M. Coetzee

I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should…

— Martin Rees

You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know,…

— Rachel Weisz

We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because…

— Zygmunt Bauman

I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as…

— Richard Dawkins

“Regardless of whether one subscribes to the aims of the four movements whose stories we have told, there is much to appreciate…

— Robert V. Robinson

“Kovacs to a female believer in New Revelation: "..I’m calling you a gutless betrayer of your sex. I can see your husband’s…

— Richard K. Morgan

“Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned…

— Joe Bageant

“Like all fundamentalists who get their clammy hands on the levers of power, the market fanatics are going to kill off every…

— Philip Pullman

“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history…

— David D. Flowers

“Pilgrim's Regress (Sonnet 2324) Mirage mistaken as message, when ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam. Dogma decreed as…

— Abhijit Naskar

“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We do not need to eliminate religion, or let me be a bit articulate and say – we cannot eliminate religion from…

— Abhijit Naskar