“When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
...jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in… — J. M. Coetzee 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
“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
“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
“When evil forces seize power, you can expect tyranny, brutality , and disaster.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“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
“You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people… — 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
“I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Danny would have thought it comical if it had come from any other source, on any other day, in any other country.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
