Quotes about Fanaticism

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.

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

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

a false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan values and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.