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Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. — Isabelle Eberhardt

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. — Will Rogers

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word. — James Parton

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism. — Dalai Lama

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope. — Albert Einstein

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism. — Zicheng Hong

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. — G.K. Chesterton

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
[My Uncle Sosthenes] — Guy De Maupassant

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench. — Baha'u'llah

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. — Alfred Korzybski

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt — C. G. Jung

People who change their religion should face the death penalty. — Zakir Naik

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. — Umberto Eco

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up. — Fisher Ames

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. — Louis Kronenberger

Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go ... — Marianne Moore

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger

Just be careful that your determination doesn't turn into your fanaticism. — Art Hochberg

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point. — R.C. Sproul

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted. — Voltaire

History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines. — Paul Tillich

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism. — Denis Diderot

Alexander was in the grip of a passion for perfection. He was not aware of how closely, how perilously, perfectionism and fanaticism are related. — Tove Jansson

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity. — Robert Graves

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. — Baron D'Holbach

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire

All extreme opinions consume themselves. — Marty Rubin

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. — Bart D. Ehrman

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south. — Mahatma Gandhi

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. — Farah Diba

A fanatic is a deeply religious man with no love in his heart — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans. — Criss Jami

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. — Lionel Blue

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion — Voltaire

Fanaticism and Ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. — Jerome Lawrence

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism. — Abhijit Naskar

Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries. — James Aldridge

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis. — Sam Harris

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

Will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later. — Dorothy Gilman

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate. — Franz Werfel

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana

All fanaticism is repressed doubt. — Carl Jung

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated. — Napoleon Bonaparte

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. — Denis Diderot

If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [ ... ] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist. — Zakir Naik

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. — Flannery O'Connor

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. — Margaret Atwood

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — Salman Rushdie

Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch. — Mercedes Lackey

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

The irony of fanaticism is that there is always another group more radical than the previous one. — Sam Fitzgerald

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind. — Tony Blair

Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. — Starhawk

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too. — Julian Baggini

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. — Bertrand Russell

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer. — Cynthia Ozick

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. — Anne Royall

A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance. — Charles Willeford

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher

Fanaticism means that if you're not against me, you're against me. — Gregory David Roberts

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man. — Richard Brookhiser

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. — Baron D'Holbach

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man. — Greg Iles

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

All fanatics loathe the questioning mind and fear the truth. — Stephen R. Harrison

Faith has no use for the sword, because those who ride with the sword to defend their faith ride with the devil by their side. — Stephen R. Harrison

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings. — Adam Gopnik

Fanaticism is redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim. — George Santayana

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind. — William Cowper

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. — Edward Gibbon

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. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Sensible conservatism is better than arrogant and stupid fanaticism. — Neville Stocks

It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance. — Terry Jones

The lust of conquest, when associated with religious fanaticism, has been the greatest scourge of the human race. — William Deans

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston S. Churchill

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East. — Ahmed Zewail

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. — William Benton Clulow

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure. — Daniel Dennett

Fanaticism leads to counterfanaticism, which is just as much to be feared. — Dalai Lama XIV

I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism. — Sam Brower

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. — Robertson Davies

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it - religious fanaticism. — Clarence Darrow

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time. — Gregory David Roberts

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything. — Evita Peron

You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up. — Victor Hugo

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil. — Edward Teller

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous. — Jonathan V. Last