Religious Fanatics 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 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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• The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Greatness

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

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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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• 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

  Jurgen Habermas

  Religious, Islamic, Political

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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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• there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

  Agatha Christie

  Religious, Fanatics, Fanaticism

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Hercule Poirot's casebook”, Putnam Adult

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• 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

  Religious, Atheist, Opposites

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Book, People

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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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• In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Sorry, Hate

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.109, Basic Books

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• Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.

  Ross Murray

  Religious, Beer, Light

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• A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.

  Jim Kaat

  Religious, Jesus, Christ

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• Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, Rights, Hands

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• Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Kind

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1999.

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• A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Religious, War, Blood

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Crush, Religious, Patriotic

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Nice, Ideas

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• America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, America, Land

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• Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.

  Massad Ayoob

  Religious, Fighting, Practice

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• Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

  Linus Torvalds

  Religious, Hippie, Morality

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• That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

  David Hackworth

  Religious, Islamic, Axes

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• I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

  Dar Williams

  Religious, Government, Double Standard

  Source: progressive.org

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• The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

  Ann Coulter

  Religious, Statistics, Tone

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.2, Crown Forum

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