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• Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

  Thomas Moore

  Hug, Atheism, Lasts

  'Lalla Rookh' (1817) 'The Veiled Prophet' pt. 3, l. 356

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• A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Party, Men, Civilization

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 17), 1952.

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• 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.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Evil, Parent

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4371, Delphi Classics

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• Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

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

  Voltaire

  Children, Monsters

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• The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.

  Voltaire

  Dream, Men, Reality

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

  Terry Jones

  Christian, Years, Imitation

  "Crusades", episode 4, January 1995.

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• The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.

  Robert Conquest

  Country, Block, Ideas

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• The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

  Adolf Hitler

  Past, Movement, Intolerance

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• Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

  Carl Sagan

  Self Esteem, Past, Challenges

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Ameen Rihani

  Christian, Religious, Goal

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• Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Letters and Papers from Prison (Who Stands Fast?)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 4), 1967.

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

  Farah Diba

  Christian

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Meditation, Black

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• The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Justice, Imagination

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• In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

  Paul Tillich

  Expression, Safety, Creative

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

  John D. MacDonald

  Journey, Animal, People

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• Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

  Storm Jameson

  Loyalty, Law, Space

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• We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the resurrection must be experienced as a victory of life, of brotherhood, of the future, of hope.

  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

  Victory, Brotherhood, Violence

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• A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Hatred, Morality

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

  Denis Diderot

  Philosophy

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• I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

  Daniel Dennett

  Buddhism, Thinking, Religion

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

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• If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

  Storm Jameson

  Compromise, Misandry, Planets

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

  Dorothy Gilman

  Compromise

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• Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.

  Starhawk

  Despair, Would Be, World

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