16 Quotes on Fanaticism
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Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
Author:
George Santayana
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
Author:
Amos Oz
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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Author:
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Author:
Anna Jameson
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Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
Author:
Robertson Davies
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
Author:
John Calhoun
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It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Author:
Georges Bizet
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