Fanaticism Quote by Fisher Ames Download Open image “That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.” — Fisher Ames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fanaticism Funny Inspirational Love
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“You do not reason a man out of something he was not reasoned into.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people.… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble.… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image