Fanatics Quotes

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
― Bertrand Russell

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

“Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.”
― Leah Wilson, The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy

“Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fundamentalism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs, which have always caused hatred, bloodshed and divided our world, are among them.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Fanatics don't wanna see anything from another standpoints.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left — sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“A prominent israeli writer, Sami Michael, once told of a long car journey with a driver. At some point, the driver explained to Michael how important, indeed how urgent, it is for us Jews “to kill all the Arabs.” Sami Michael listened politely, and instead of reacting with horror, denunciation, or disgust, he asked the driver an innocent question: “And who, in your opinion, should kill all the Arabs?”

“Us! The Jews! We have to! It’s either us or them! Can’t you see what they’re doing to us?”

“But who, exactly, should actually kill all the Arabs? The army? The police? Firemen, perhaps? Or doctors in white coats, with syringes?”

The driver scratched his head, pondered the question, and finally said, “We’ll have to divvy it up among us. Every Jewish man will have to kill a few Arabs.”

Michael did not let up: “All right. Let’s say you, as a Haifa man, are in charge of one apartment building in Haifa. You go from door to door, ring the bells, and ask the residents politely, ‘Excuse me, would you happen to be Arabs?’ If the answer is yes, you shoot and kill them. When you’re done killing all the Arabs in the building, you go downstairs and head home, but before you get very far you hear a baby crying on the top floor. What do you do? Turn around? Go back? Go upstairs and shoot the baby? Yes or no?”

A long silence. The driver considers. Finally he says, “Sir, you are a very cruel man!”

This story exposes the confusion sometimes found in the fanatic’s mind: a mixture of intransigence with sentimentality and a lack of imagination.”
― Amos Oz, שלום לקנאים

“Fanatics clouded by self-justification.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Paranoia, soaring paranoia. It's the people who are loyalest to the Village [the State] who are most susceptible. They begin to think everyone is betraying the cause but themselves.”
― Thomas M. Disch, The Prisoner

“Men of ritual, men of blind worship,
will never know the breath of life,
which in a way, is animal blessing,
to know life is to be restless with light.

To know light is to be restless,
to know life is to be breathless,
only those without life can sit still,
for blindness is boon to the savages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Nationalism has nothing to do with culture, fundamentalism has nothing to do with religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Be a think tank of life, not a septic tank of prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“All superstitions are practiced as truth, all entitlement is passed on as enlightenment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Fanaticism is the real blasphemy, courage to confront it is real divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Planet earth is a planet of vegetables,
don't let looks and suits fool you.
Only sentient beings are heathen rebels,
alive enough to question vegetable truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Vegetables must be washed and cooked, to eliminate harmful bacteria 'n parasites, and bring out their true nutrition - mind must be washed in compassion, and cooked in the fire of reason, to eliminate harmful biases and prejudice, and achieve our true capacity for life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Politicians are professional gaslighters, they gaslight people against people, neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, humanity against humanity - that's how they stay in business.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Politicians are professional gaslighters, they gaslight people against people, neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, humanity against humanity - that's how they stay in business. And the fact that we've evolved from the apes, doesn't help much - our jungle instincts of tribalism don't need much coaxing to be blown into fully fledged war, between cultures, between religions, between nations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I Exist for I Dissolve in All (Sonnet 2265)

My brain is multilingual,
my heart is multicultural,
my life is multidimensional,
I exist for I dissolve in all.

You barely speak one language,
ramble doctrines from one dead book,
can't see beyond the customs of your tribe,
yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth!

Fanaticism is compensation for insecurity,
supremacy is compensation for inferiority.
Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets,
half a thousand limericks, half a thousand
free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm incomplete.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“My brain is multilingual,
my heart is multicultural,
my life is multidimensional,
I exist for I dissolve in all.

You barely speak one language,
ramble doctrines from one dead book,
can't see beyond the customs of your tribe,
yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You barely speak one language, ramble doctrines from one dead book, can't see beyond the customs of your tribe, yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Fanaticism is compensation for insecurity, supremacy is compensation for inferiority.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Fanaticism is compensation for insecurity, supremacy is compensation for inferiority. Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm incomplete.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Give monkeys some bananas, and they're happy -
give humans a flag, scripture and gun, they're delirious.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“To claim we are infallible is to prove we are fanatic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Worship and prayer within limit improve wellbeing, but fanatic worship renders life lettuce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Mirage mistaken as message, when ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat