Fundamentalism Quotes

• I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

  Antonio Banderas

  Believe, Kind, Don't Believe

  "Antonio Banderas Puts On His Dancing Shoes". Interview, people.com. April 8, 2006.

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• Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine," seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Teaching, Wind

  "Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Dean of the College of Cardinals". Remarks by Pope Benedict XVI during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Self, Mind

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• There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

  Sydney Pollack

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

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• One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

  Moby

  People, Trying, Needs

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• My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Wings, Enemy

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• It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Wind, Law, Physics

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

  John Shelby Spong

  Past, Way, Lasts

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• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  Mal Peet

  Book, Form, Illiteracy

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• This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

  Anwar Sadat

  Religious, Lying, People

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• I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Religious, Self

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

  Jon Meacham

  Rejection, Mind, Liberty

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• I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

  John Lydon

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• I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.

  Philip Pullman

  Tolerance, Truth Is, Form

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Intellectual, Mind, Used

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• Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Culture, Weapons, Kind

  Marjane Satrapi (2004). “Persepolis Two”, Pantheon

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• In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, World, Modern

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.

  Matthew Fox

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will be.

  Joel Bakan

  Order, Elements, World

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Maturity, Doe

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  You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

  Moby

  Christian, Appreciation, Ignorant

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Islamic, Cocktails, Radical

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• I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Scene Point Blank Interview, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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