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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

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism. — Richard Dawkins

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. — Bryant McGill

Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny. — Abhijit Naskar

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 only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem — Sam Harris

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

The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words. — Abhijit Naskar

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

[I am a humble adherent of] ... Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. — Ernest Gellner

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

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter. — Abhijit Naskar

Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions. — Robert M. Price

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

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.
(History Will Teach Us Nothing) — Sting

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism. — Daniel Dennett

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism. — Marjane Satrapi

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 to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art. With — Brian Zahnd

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

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. — Jeff Sharlet

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. — Anwar Sadat

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. — John Lydon

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

The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water. — Ken MacLeod

Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure. — Abhijit Naskar

Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan were self-proclaimed atheists. — Tariq Ali