(33 quotes found)
“The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.”
Oscar Wilde
“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication”
Thomas Jefferson
“There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.”
Robertson Davies
“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”
“The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort”
Adolf Hitler
“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
“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”
“We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
