#fanaticism

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

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

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#claim #ends #fanaticism #god #our

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#creed #fanaticism #fashionable #multiplication #table

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#fanaticism

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#fanaticism #only #step

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

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ↗

— George Santayana

#consists #effort #fanaticism #forgotten #you

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

#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

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

#active role #extremism #fanaticism #feeds #hate