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Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. -- Steve Earle
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
I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell. -- Matthew Fox
Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this. -- King Hussein I
Fundamentalism is still on the march. -- David Brooks
Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind -- Hanif Kureishi
Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power. -- Salman Rushdie
Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ. -- Will Durant
[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. -- Ernest Gellner
Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem -- Sam Harris
Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions. -- Robert M. Price
Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind. -- Peter Higgs
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. -- Jeff Sharlet
Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith. -- Alan Aldridge
Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book. -- Mal Peet
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
With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a spiritualized form of situational ethics and a Christianly submissive statism. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.' -- Elaine Pagels
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
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions or mutations [heresies] are present, fundamentalism will churn out antibodies to keep the population under control and prevent mutations from getting out of hand. -- Darrel Ray
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America. -- Florence King
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books. -- J. M. Coetzee
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form. -- J. K. Rowling
I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong. -- John Lydon
I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism. -- Antonio Banderas
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. -- G. Gordon Liddy
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West. -- Salman Rushdie
I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. -- Gijs de Vries
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. -- Isabel Allende
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that. -- Arthur Hertzberg
I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world. -- Warren Mitchell
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States. -- Ann Coulter
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. -- bell hooks
The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. -- Taslima Nasrin
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember. -- Radhanath Swami
While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness. -- Sam Harris
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. -- Deepak Chopra
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 swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. -- Pope Benedict XVI
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. -- Jon Meacham
I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas. -- Jane Campion
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq. -- Bill Richardson
The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression and the freedom to go out and be social and to express themselves, you will see a change. I see that coming about in my country. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks? -- Adam McKay
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway. -- Arundhati Roy
My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism. -- William J. Clinton
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Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism. -- Dominique de Villepin
Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. -- Jeff Sharlet
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism. -- Marjane Satrapi
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. -- Jacob T. Schwartz
Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. -- Jacob T. Schwartz
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses. -- Michel Chossudovsky
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. -- Starhawk
Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past. -- John Shelby Spong
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will. -- Richard Dawkins
It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism. -- Elizabeth Lesser
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. -- Michael Crichton
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism. -- Daniel Dennett
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... -- John Naisbitt
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism. -- Maajid Nawaz
Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. -- Bryant McGill
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims. -- Gijs de Vries
I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be. -- Mel White
Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican. -- Jeff Sharlet
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. -- Anwar Sadat
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
Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext. -- Pope Francis
Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself. -- Mark Carney
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism. -- Martin Rees
It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance. -- Milos Zeman
I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate. -- Alejandro Amenabar
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
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
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow. -- Edward Kasner
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
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no? -- Pope Francis
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
In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration. -- Viggo Mortensen
There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism. -- Moby
Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy. -- Sherman Alexie
Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism. -- Matt Taibbi
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
As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little. -- James Wolfensohn
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. -- Chaim Potok
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
At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly. -- Peter Mountford
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. -- Azar Nafisi
What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum. -- Jeff Sharlet
The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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
Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery. -- Richard Rossi
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive. -- Anne Lamott
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. -- Ann Coulter
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. -- Neil Kinnock
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful. -- Peter L. Berger
...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
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
Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. -- Cass Sunstein
There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect. -- Sydney Pollack
I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth. -- Philip Pullman
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
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.

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