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Tag Name "Fanaticism" (113)

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Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
William Cowper
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Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions but it rectifies none of them.
William Warburton
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
Adam Gopnik
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Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
John William Fletcher
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Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.
Tony Blair
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Edward Gibbon
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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
Voltaire
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
Marianne Moore
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Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
Elie Wiesel
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Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
Farah Diba
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Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.
Anne Royall
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Fanaticism is such a blind stuff that it can never give you any idea as to what is reality. Because whatever you believe into, you build up your own ideas and everything onto it and it's like a fake palace built on a fake idea. And then you go on fighting. If God is one, if His love is one, then how can people who believe in God fight?
Nirmala Srivastava
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
Voltaire
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Fanaticism displays itself in the masses but the masses were rarely fanaticised and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.
Lord Acton
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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Mary Augusta Ward
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Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
Evita Peron
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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
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You don't have to have blind faith for anything. Blind faith leads to fanaticism. You shouldn't have blind faith at all. You have to experience, and after experiencing if you do not have faith, that means you are not honest.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.
Fareed Zakaria
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur Miller
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Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.
Olympe de Gouges
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There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme religion to fanaticism free-thinking to atheism liberty to rebellion.
George Berkeley
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