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• In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

  Paul Tillich

  Honesty, Humble, Thoughtful

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Killing, Pretext

  "Pope Francis says fundamentalist terrorism result of 'deviant forms of religion" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.

  Jimmy Carter

  Commitment, Movement, Firsts

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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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• The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

  Jon Meacham

  Fighting, Support, Intellectual

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• I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.

  Mel White

  Christian, Country, Notable

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• The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.

  David Cameron

  Struggle, Thinking, Roots

  David Cameron's speech to the Foreign Policy Centre thinktank, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

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• You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

  Sydney Pollack

  Religious, Crazy, Views

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• Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

  Brené Brown

  Minus, Vulnerability

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• My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)

  Rachel Held Evans

  Thinking, Hands, Belief

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• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Writing, People

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• Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem

  Sam Harris

  Fundamentals, Problem, Ifs

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• Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.

  Howard Gardner

  Decision, Mind, Kind

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• Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions.

  Robert M. Price

  Thinking, Answers, Asks

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• My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).

  James Hillman

  War, Heart, Thinking

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• Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Islamic, Poverty, Mass

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Law, Forever

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• There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.

  W. S. Merwin

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Fundamentalism is still on the march.

  David Brooks

  March, Stills

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

  Hanif Kureishi

  Mind, Dictatorship

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album with My Son the Fanatic: A Novel and a Short Story”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Country, Islamic, Warrior

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• But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment.

  Henry Giroux

  Moving, Political, Understanding

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Law, Choices, Betrayed

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Telling”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

  Ernest Gellner

  Humble, Enlightenment

  "Postmodernism, Reason and Religion". Book by Ernest Gellner, 1992.

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• There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Believe, Frustration

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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