Disease Quote by Ninian Smart

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

— Michael Crichton

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles…

— Andrew Bernstein

The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.

— Jill Greenberg

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a…

— Taslima Nasrin

While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism…

— Deeyah Khan

The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks like. I…

— Scott Derrickson

Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations…

— Darrel Ray

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In…

— David Cameron

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

— Moshe Katsav

Every European country faces threats which ignore national frontiers: pandemics, climate change, terrorism and organised crime.

— David Lidington

I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others…

— Jimmy Carter