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Fanaticism leads to counterfanaticism, which is just as much to be feared.
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.
There is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
Ideology-the permission to hate.
They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.
The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques.
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.
Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
People with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
Bloodthirsty fanatics who regarded all Western inventions and practices as works of the devil, they saw themselves as divinely appointed to purify the region by slaughtering all who allied with foreigners or deviated from their narrow vision of Islam.
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.
It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.
The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
It is not growing fanaticism, but growing democracy, that causes my troubles. Did you ever read the life of Averroes? He was protected by kings, but hated by the mob, which was fanatical. In the end, the mob won. Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one," Dr. Poblocki said. "When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?
Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
Fanaticism and Ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.
A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.
A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me ... a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
What kind of fanatical devotion would it take to maintain this depressing illusion?
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends ... and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man.
Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.
Islamism. It's an ideology. People are seeking to bring it about, but they differ in their approach.
A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.
If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth
any man of integrity.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons
Politics, religion and arrogance are problems of society but being a fanatic in any...makes you a danger to humanity.
Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
Futilitarianism.
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.
Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.
The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.
Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality ... through faith.
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.
Patriotism was a fool's religion, a crude social bonding device that defeated itself by inciting violence and inviting reprisal.
The irony of fanaticism is that there is always another group more radical than the previous one.
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen.
Extremists and their supports cause you to align yourself with something you're not in order to get as far away as possible from the something you're really not.
Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.
Stupid Crusaders with their stupid rules. For a homicidal group, they're appallingly restrictive.
No, Meda, you can't leave campus.
No, Meda, you know we have a curfew.
No, Meda, you can't eat that guy.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.
A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
(Interview, Time Magazine, February 20, 2005)
When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.
The lust of conquest, when associated with religious fanaticism, has been the greatest scourge of the human race.
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .
Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.