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Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.
— Michel Chossudovsky
Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.
— Bryant McGill
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
— G. Gordon Liddy
Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism
— Brene Brown
Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.
— Abhijit Naskar
Blind faith is not real religion my friend.
— Abhijit Naskar
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
— Maajid Nawaz
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
— Jack Schwartz
If a God tends to reinforce the prejudices in a society instead of diminishing them from the society, then such God is worse than Cancer.
— Abhijit Naskar
People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
— Umberto Eco
Fundamentalism is still on the march.
— David Brooks
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?
— Pope Francis
The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.
— Gary Malone
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.
— Michael Crichton
We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.
— Eqbal Ahmad
Brutality goes hand in hand with orthodoxy, be it Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Atheistic or any other.
— Abhijit Naskar
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
— Mal Peet
My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.
— William J. Clinton
A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.
— Abhijit Naskar
Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.
— Abhijit Naskar
Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.
— Abhijit Naskar
The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth.
— Abhijit Naskar
I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.
— Stef Wertheimer
Monsters always make more trouble before they die.
— Melinda Gebbie
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
— Steve Earle
Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.
— Jeff Sharlet
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
— Dominique De Villepin
Fundamentalism is not motivated by fear. It is motivated by conviction.
— Curtis A. Chamberlain
Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
— Will Durant
She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.
— David Brooks
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.
— Arthur Hertzberg
People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.
— Michael Specter
The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.
— Abhijit Naskar
What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?
— Jared Brock
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.
— Peter Higgs
It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
— Elizabeth Lesser
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
— Gijs De Vries
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
— Richard Dawkins
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
— Michel De Montaigne
It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.
— R. Joseph Hoffmann
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.
— Edward Kasner
Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.
— Abhijit Naskar
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
— Daniel Dennett
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
— J.K. Rowling
I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist ... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.
— Alejandro Amenabar
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.
— Jeff Sharlet
You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics
— Jeri Massi
If as spiritual practitioners we ignore the discoveries of science, our practice is also impoverished, as this mind-set can lead to fundamentalism.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.
— Salman Rushdie
Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
— Hanif Kureishi
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.
— Starhawk
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.
— Abhijit Naskar
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
— Christopher Hitchens
If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.
— C.D. Wright
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
— Anne Lamott
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
— Chaim Potok
You know," said Jehangir, breaking the silence, "it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.
— Michael Muhammad Knight
Every (Christian) generation has a choice: to go out like [King] Saul or to go out like Paul.
— Russell D. Moore
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
— Gijs De Vries
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.
— Anwar Sadat
Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.
— John Shelby Spong
From our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
— Bernard Beckett
I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.
— Antonio Banderas
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
— Bart D. Ehrman
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.
— Alan Aldridge
Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can't raise my voice you can't raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.
— Salman Rushdie
He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.
— G.K. Chesterton
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
— Salman Rushdie
Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.
— Sherman Alexie
I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.
— Mel White