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Fanaticism Quotes by Daniel Dennett
- There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
- I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply…
- In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
More Fanaticism Quotes
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left… — William Shakespeare
- Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to… — Thomas Jefferson
- Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher
- Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,… — Bertrand Russell
- 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