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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry -- Christopher Paolini
The enemy of idealism is zealotry. -- Neil Kinnock
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
The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits. -- David Limbaugh
I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians. -- Bill Keller
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. -- Robert Byrd
Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children. -- Russell Crowe
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence. -- Richard Hofstadter
Pat Buchanan...was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network....The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced. -- Ted Nugent
It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of thing, whatever it is, never happens here, not in our community. Then it happens, right in front of you, and you realize you were blind to it, that you forgot that intolerance and zealotry and viciousness are human currency everywhere, and it takes your breath away. -- Mike Daisey
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power. -- Salman Rushdie
Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious. -- Criss Jami
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. -- Salman Rushdie
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. -- Sarah Vowell
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -- Anatole France
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego. -- Michael Crichton
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] -- Francis Crick
You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission. -- Brad Meltzer
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. -- Norman G. Finkelstein
What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. -- Joseph Campbell
Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'. -- Nancy Pearcey
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. -- Anne Rice
Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote from scripture and a pocket full ofprayers and you get a room full of corpses. -- Kevis Hendrickson
That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains. -- K.W. Jeter
You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as well, that it too is in the Lord's service. And in times like these, with the world fallen to the state it has, hate serves God more than love. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators. -- Stephen Fry
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriageAs chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage -- Orson Scott Card
Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universalUnless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation. -- Søren Kierkegaard
We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe. -- Ted Cruz
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. -- Norman G. Finkelstein

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