Fanaticism Quotes

• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Change, Business

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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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

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Science, Ideas

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 14, p. 244, 1985.

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• From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

  Denis Diderot

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "Essai sur le Mérite de la Vertu". A translation and adaptation of "Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit" by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, 1745.

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• There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religion, Reason, Fanatics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Religious, Tolerance, Atheism

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• The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

  Denis Diderot

  People, Religion, Atheism

  "Conversations with a Christian Lady". "Selected Writings", edited by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Vices, Harm, Mankind

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• Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Doubt, Secret

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tyrants, Ideas, Atheism

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• All fanaticism is repressed doubt.

  Carl Jung

  Doubt, Repressed

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• It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

  Albert Einstein

  Fighting, Stupidity, Together

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• Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gestures, Reason, Mankind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1990). “Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Confusion, Transition

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Wisdom, Religious, Allies

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

  James Russell Lowell

  Powerful, Names, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.232

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• Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Feelings, Humanity, Emotion

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.814, Wordsworth Editions

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• A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

  Richard Whately

  Religious, Strong, Political

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• Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

  William Cowper

  Fire, Mind, Fanatics

  William Cowper (1815). “Poems”, p.245

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• In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Wickedness, Politics

  'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Thinking, Facts

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• Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

  Edmund Burke

  Enemy, Able, Kind

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Time, Vehement, Cold

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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

  James Parton

  Religion, Definitions

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