Fanaticism Quotes

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. (Denis Diderot)
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. View quote
George Santayana
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. View quote
Carl Sagan
It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance. View quote
Terry Jones
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. View quote
John C. Calhoun
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
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. View quote
Georges Bizet
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. View quote
Arthur Miller
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. View quote
Lawrence Wright
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. (William Cowper)
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. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. View quote
Immanuel Kant
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. View quote
Otto Schily
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. View quote
Hans Küng
All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse. View quote
Edmund Cooper
[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet -- we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that. View quote
Michele Bachmann
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin. (Uri Avnery)
Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. View quote
Robertson Davies
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. View quote
Jürgen Habermas