All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

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

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

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

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

There is a religion around 'Star Wars' that is different than even the fanaticism around comic books and other media.

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

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.

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.

Being a longstanding partner of the Arab world, we in India are also deeply concerned with the rise of fanaticism, extremism, and terrorism in parts of the region.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People are so passionate about their favourite artists making it to number 1, it almost reminds me of football fanaticism. Nowadays, it's 'One Direction' vs 'The Wanted.' Back in my day, it was 'Oasis' vs 'Blur'.

In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

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.

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.

One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't start as fanatics. They shift and evolve into that state. That's a process, a systematic process of losing your identity and sense of self.

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