Fundamentalism Quotes - Page 6

• An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Children, Lessons, Violin

  "Europe has to take the initiative now". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  War, Teaching, Fighting

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• We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.

  Elton John

  Book, Gay, Thinking

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Wind, Ego

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• You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.

  Rachel Weisz

  Christian, Spiritual, Teaching

  Source: collider.com

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• Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

  Robert Fisk

  Country, Justice, Democracy

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Religious, Goal, Conservative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Attitude, Thinking, Civilization

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• Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

  Wole Soyinka

  Religious, Lines, Today

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I wouldn't give up on Russia. I think they have legitimate security concerns from Islamic fundamentalism, not only on their border but in their country.

  John Bolton

  Country, Giving Up, Islamic

  Source: humanevents.com

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• Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.

  Arundhati Roy

  Talking, People, Links

  Source: progressive.org

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• People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Organization, People

  Source: chomsky.info

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• The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Islamic, Leaving, Alternatives

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

  Marine Le Pen

  War, Islamic, Practice

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Religious, Racism

  "Understanding Power". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2002.

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism/ extreme nationalism culture.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religious, Military, Healing

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• It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced.

  Marine Le Pen

  Islamic, Responsibility, Overcoming

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• Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Intellectual, Satisfaction, Accepting

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.151, Beacon Press

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• Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Islamic, Deny, Islamic Fundamentalism

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• Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Brave, Atheism

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• We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.

  Israel Shahak

  Past, Wish, Realizing

  "Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel". Book by Israel Shahak, 1997.

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• I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

  RuPaul

  Men, Thinking, Hysteria

  Interview with T Lo, tomandlorenzo.com. March 3, 2009.

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• I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.

  Martin Rees

  Religious, Fighting, Thinking

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

  George Soros

  Successful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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