96 Quotes About Fanaticism
- Author Gustave Flaubert
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Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.
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- Author Octavia E. Butler
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What does Jarett really think about the Crusaders? Does he control them? If he doesn't like what they're doing, he should make some effort to stop them. He shouldn't want them to make their insanity part of his political image. On the other hand, one way to make people afraid of you is to have a crazy side--a side of yourself or your organization that's dangerous and unpredictable--willing to do any damned thing.
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- Author Mercedes Lackey
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
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- Author Shunya
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A person studies science for 20 years. All concepts stay in his outer mind. Then he goes to a preacher for 1 year. He turns into a fanatic. Why? Because half baked things easily get into subconscious mind and then into dreams. And we have a tendency to believe dreams to be the certificate from divine authorities.
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- Author Amit Abraham
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Religions don't divide humanity but it's fanatics, politics and power hungry politicians that do.
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- Author Paul Tillich
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...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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- Author Umberto Eco
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People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
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- Author Umberto Eco
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Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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