Cost Quote by Pascal Boyer

A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with…

— John Shelby Spong

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful…

— Paul Tillich

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

— Jean-Francois Cope

“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of…

— Salman Rushdie

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the…

— Robin Wasserman

To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless,…

— Tariq Ali

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

A lust for the violence is the science of their behavior.

— Krs One

“Why should the spread of ideas and people result in reforms that lower violence? There are several pathways. The most obvious is a debunking…

— Steven Pinker

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that…

— John Henry Newman

“William Butler Yeats’s “Second Coming” seems perfectly to render our present predicament: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of…

— Slavoj Žižek

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi