Fanatics Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fanatics Fantastic Ideology Inspirational Theology
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.” — Alan Aldridge Copy Share Image
“Theology is needful because of the large number of alternatives and challenges abroad at the present” — Millard J. Erickson Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation. — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Theology is something that is learned, lived, sung, preached, and renewed through the dynamic interaction between God and his people.” — Michael F. Bird Copy Share Image
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. It holds a specific view of God, which is touted as… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.” — Cathryn Louis Copy Share Image
“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a neighbor from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Don't assume you understand Naskar (Sonnet 2972) Naskar Science is Naskar Theology is Naskar Poetry is Naskar Philosophy - and do not even dare… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out. — John Boyega Copy Share Image
One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image