Fanaticism quotes

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◆ The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

- Adolf Hitler100

◆ Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction

- Oscar Ostlund99

◆ Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

- George Santayana99

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

- Carl Sagan99

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

- Wendell Phillips99

◆ The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

- Arthur Miller99

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

- Reinhold Niebuhr99

◆ From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

- Denis Diderot99

◆ Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

- Jack Kevorkian99

◆ Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.

- Jurgen Habermas99

◆ The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun99

◆ Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

- Edward Gibbon99

◆ The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

- John C Calhoun99

◆ Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make an enemy of and have to eliminate everything that goes against them.

- Sorin Cerin99

◆ If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism.

- Thomas Jefferson99