Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist… — Jean-Francois Cope Copy Share Image
“There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ drives the psyche of mentally… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wesley and most of his descendants developed a doctrine of Scripture that focused on its role in transforming the believer’s inner being… — Al Truesdale Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, "sensible" religion may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism:… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their… — Mel White Copy Share Image
“When “fundamentalism” takes root within a religious movement, emphasis shifts away from love of God and love of neighbor in order to… — Aaron Milavec Copy Share Image
“By ignoring the apparent contradictions of scripture, fundamentalism ignores its questions, reducing its complexity to implicit equations. Hate equals love; obedience is… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“These preachers and priests are no more religious and wise than the parrot that keeps repeating the same words over and over… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalists thrive in times of rapid social change. Fundamentalists generally champion emotionally charged issues that can be reduced to unambiguous black and… — Aaron Milavec Copy Share Image
Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“It was actually in the Atlantic West that we first witnessed the paradox of religious fundamentalism: that it reflects the weakening of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I wouldn't give up on Russia. I think they have legitimate security concerns from Islamic fundamentalism, not only on their border but… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
