Top 227 Fanaticism Quotes & Sayings

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

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

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

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

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

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

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

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

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

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

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

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. And yes, I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them. The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

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

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

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

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

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

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

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

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

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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

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

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.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

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

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.