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• There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Art, Philosophy, Band

  Alan Dean Foster (2002). “Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of the Founding of the Commonwealth”, p.85, Del Rey

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

  Daniel Dennett

  Religion, Atheism, Force

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  Otto Schily

  Hate, Play, Roles

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

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Spiritual, Taken, Arrogance

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• We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Poison, Half

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• Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Religious, Spring

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fanaticism is such a blind stuff that it can never give you any idea as to what is reality. Because whatever you believe into, you build up your own ideas and everything onto it and it's like a fake palace built on a fake idea. And then you go on fighting. If God is one, if His love is one, then how can people who believe in God fight?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Believe

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• Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Blind, Discouraging

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing to the growth of Presbyterianism. The blasphemy of the five points of Calvin, and the impossibility of defending them, render their advocates impatient of reasoning, irritable, and prone to denunciation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Ideas, Growth

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.358

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• It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Men, Vanity, Superstitions

  "The System of Nature". Vol. 1, chap. IX. Book by Baron d'Holbach, translated by Samuel Wilkinson, 1770.

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

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Religious, Fire, Hatred

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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

  John Berger

  Dogma, Form, Pursuit

  "The bloody outcome of two worlds at war" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2005.

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• It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, War, Humanity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, May, Charity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.25

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• Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Football, Together, Intellect

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• The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

  Arthur Koestler

  Irreverence, Common, Medieval

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• What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.

  Anthony Storr

  Religious, Numbers, Long

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• No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Loss, Men

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer? Okay. Overpopulation is why I'm in favor of homosexuality and a celibate clergy. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Mean, Thinking, Vegas

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Feet

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Heart, School, Mean

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• You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You have to experience, and after experiencing if you do not have faith, that means you are not honest.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet - we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that.

  Michele Bachmann

  Years, Trying, Needs

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• Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Mistake, Character

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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