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• 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.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Jail, Common Sense

  "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.

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• An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Strong, Imagination, May

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Practice, Public Opinion

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• There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Doubt, Prejudice

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• Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Thinking, Roots

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• 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 Brownell Jameson

  Peace, Ubuntu, Evil

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.72

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• Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

  Marquis de Sade

  Imagination, Atheism, Take Me As I Am

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• We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Names, Giving, Want

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Philosophical

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

  Adolf Hitler

  Faith, Respect, Religious

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Struggle, Moving

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

  Leon Festinger

  Confidence, Men, Psychology

  Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter (2013). “When Prophecy Fails”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Goal, Effort

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

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• Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

  John William Fletcher

  Children, Father, Philosophical

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• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  Camille Flammarion

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Done, World, Might

  "The Future of Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 79; also in BBC The Listener, Vol. 61 (1959), p. 505, 1959.

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• There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Littles, Performers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.119

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• I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Womb

  'Remorse for Intemperate Speech'

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• The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

  Voltaire

  Running, Truth, Risk

  Voltaire (2007). “The Complete Romances of Voltaire”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

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• The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Atheism, Vices, Sincerity

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

  Wendell Phillips

  Tables, Today, Tomorrow

  Wendell Phillips (1982). “Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom”

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• The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

  Alexander Pope

  Running, Mad, Insanity

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 6 (1738) l. 27

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• Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

  John Keats

  Dream, Paradise, Positive Atheism

  'The Fall of Hyperion' (written 1819) l. 1

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• Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

  Men, Superstitions, Beast

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