Elements Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

“We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.”

— Orson Scott Card

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

— Bahá'u'lláh

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

— Orville Dewey

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

— Edward Gibbon

“From Jane Collier's "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting" - In short, keep up in your mind the true spirit of contradiction…

— Jane Collier

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

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

— Carl Jung

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity.…

— George H. Smith

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

— William J. Clinton

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson