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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. -- Robertson Davies
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. -- Edward Gibbon
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. -- Denis Diderot
Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind. -- William Cowper
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. -- John Berger
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. -- John William Fletcher
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. -- Wendell Phillips
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. -- Georges Bizet
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. -- John C. Calhoun
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt -- Robertson Davies
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism. -- Denis Diderot
Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. -- Farah Diba
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings. -- Adam Gopnik
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion -- Voltaire
Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind. -- Tony Blair
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes. -- Lord Acton
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. -- Dennis Prager
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go... -- Marianne Moore
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. -- Anne Royall
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. -- Voltaire
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake. -- Elie Wiesel
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. -- Bertrand Russell
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them. -- William Warburton
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians. -- Lord Acton
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom -- Lin Yutang
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen. -- Thaddeus Stevens
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no. -- James Russell Lowell
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. -- Voltaire
Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words. -- Elie Wiesel
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods. -- John Calvin
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. -- Alexander Pope
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart. -- William Butler Yeats
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. -- Louis Kronenberger
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -- Winston Churchill
E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word. -- James Parton
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. -- Lionel Blue
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. -- Will Rogers
There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too. -- Julian Baggini
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam. -- Cat Stevens
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. -- Hosea Ballou
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism. -- Jurgen Habermas
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. -- Hans Kung
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. -- Lawrence Wright
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
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism. -- Thomas Jefferson
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. -- Anna Jameson
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. -- Alexei Sayle
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. -- Jack Kevorkian
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. -- Arthur Miller
The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others. -- Adolf Hitler
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people. -- Daniel Dennett
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something. -- Cynthia Ozick
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire. -- Adam Gopnik
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity -- Oscar Wilde
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice -- Louis Kronenberger
Where no shadow of doubt is allowed; you can be sure fanaticism will loom large in its place -- NA
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others -- NA
Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction -- Oscar Wilde
The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything -- Frank Robinson
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism -- Thomas Jefferson
All fanaticism is repressed doubt. -- Carl Jung
Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything. -- Evita Peron
Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism. -- Dalai Lama
Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together. -- Hugh MacDiarmid
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. -- Alfred Korzybski
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism. -- Denis Diderot
will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later. -- Dorothy Gilman
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Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. -- Charles Spurgeon
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I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them. -- Amos Oz
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. -- Mary Augusta Ward
Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity. -- Francis Atterbury
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted. -- Voltaire
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. -- Starhawk
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . -- Thomas Jefferson
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul. -- Paulo Coelho
For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. -- Paul Morley
It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance. -- Terry Jones
It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope. -- Albert Einstein
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. -- Elie Wiesel
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. -- William Benton Clulow
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. -- Amos Oz
Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules. -- Tim Sandlin
Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point. -- R. C. Sproul
Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East. -- Ahmed Zewail
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization. -- Jean Baudrillard
The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom. -- Isabelle Eberhardt
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany. -- Otto Schily
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism -- Jurgen Habermas
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide. -- Albert Ellis
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
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil. -- Edward Teller
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure. -- Daniel Dennett
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism. -- Zicheng Hong
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
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
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
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity. -- Edward Gibbon

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