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 | The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 26 likes |
 | Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 18 likes |
 | A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 10 likes |
 | Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 7 likes |
 | He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 5 likes |
 | The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 4 likes |
 | Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 4 likes |
| Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 4 likes |
 | The more free a man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him. |
| Beware the man of the single book. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher (the Bible) |
| The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. |
 | When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves. |
 | The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the closer it contracts. |
 | Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. |
 | Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. |
 | Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. |
| The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality. |
 | People always speak of “blind fanaticism”, as if there were clairvoyant fanaticism too. |
 | Doesn’t anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer? |
 | You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. |
 | The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic |
Funny Quotes
 | The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 11 likes |
