I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
E. P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.
will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
All fanaticism is repressed doubt.
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.