Causes Quote by Eric Hoffer

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

— Voltaire

“There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are numerous people,…

— Elton Trueblood

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

— Dean Koontz

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

— Adam Gopnik

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

— Agatha Christie

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical…

— Bertrand Russell

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital…

— Edward Gibbon

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where…

— John C. Calhoun

“A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission…

— Gustave Le Bon