Quotes about Zealotry

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.

The fanatic is always in a hurry to fall on your neck to save you, because he loves you. He loves you unconditionally. But, conversely, he might grab you and strangle you if he discovers that you are beyond redemption. Lost. And if that is the case, he is obliged to hate you and rid the world of you.

Fanaticism ... is contagious: a person may catch it even as he fights to cure other people of it. There is no shortage of anti-fanaticism fanatics in the world. All sorts of crusades to stop jihad, and jihads to subjugate the new crusaders. This includes the zeal so prevalent in Israel and in the West these days to deliver a knockout blow that will finish off all the bloodthirsty fanatics and anyone like them once and for all. To eradicate every last bastion of zealotry.

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.