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

“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

“How do you end animosity between nations, between cultures? You stand as the ultimate beacon of brotherhood – borderless, prejudiceless, intoleranceless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The day we learn to celebrate each other, instead of fixating on fairytales in the sky, that day we'll be holy, that day we'll be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“A country of idiots celebrates filmstars, a civilized country celebrates scientists, poets, educators, engineers, doctors, and all the people who actually advance civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Having grey hair and wrinkles do not make a person wise, person is wise when they can confront the failures of their own tribe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“You know what the favorite word of a fascist is? Freedom. You know what the favorite word of a fanatic is? Tradition.

You know what the favorite word of the superstitious is? Enlightenment. You know what the favorite word of a conspiracy theorist is? Truth”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Celebrate people for their existence, and credit institutions for what they can achieve, rather than celebrating institutions for their antiquity, while judging people by what they can accomplish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Any art used for propaganda is ape slop.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Either Nationalist or Human (Naskaristana 3215)

I gave up my youth for the world, and I ask the youth of only one thing, look out for others around you, in school, at work, on the streets, everywhere -

particularly those who don't look like you, speak your language, or practice your religion, because the countries of earth are crawling with monkeys covering up for their own, but humans looking out for fellow humans are still scarce.

I don't want jungle patriots hanging from flagpoles, saluting with backbone dangling from their derriere, I want civilized patriots who've outgrown the jungle, patriots who wear their heart on their chest, carry their backbone as battery, and brain as gear, not in defence of a monkey state or kingdom or flag, but in defence of the marginalized humans, in defence of the discriminated, dehumanized, and displaced.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“What is religion, what is brainwash?
Whatever unites, is religion,
whatever divides, is brainwash.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“If my writing becomes scripture, burn them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“How to tell fascism from democracy?

Look for the state fanatically obsessed with one religion, one culture, one tradition, and there you'll find your own homegrown fascist regime -

and if that happens, you didn't expel the empire, you just replaced white terrorists with colored ones.

Every nation must wash its own dirty laundry - a nation is not free until every last stubborn stain of fanaticism is scrubbed out of the social fabric, with the detergent of reason and the spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Look for the state fanatically obsessed with one religion, one culture, one tradition, and there you'll find your own homegrown fascist regime. A nation is not free until every last stubborn stain of fanaticism is scrubbed out of the social fabric, with the detergent of reason and the spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Clinical Symptoms of Fascism
(Earthlog 3232-3233)

The british and americans made an unparalleled career out of fascism, by invading, extorting, and erasing, but fascism is not white or colored, every country has its fascist elements, because fascism is one of the common animal elements of human nature.

That is why, if you think, end of the empire was the end of fascism, you couldn't be more brainlessly wrong - in modern times, the enemies of a country lurk within its own democratically elected government, rather than come from outside.

How to tell fascism from democracy?

Look for the state fanatically obsessed with one religion, one culture, one tradition, and there you'll find your own homegrown fascist regime - and if that happens, you didn't expel the empire, you just replaced white terrorists with colored ones.

Every nation must wash its own dirty laundry - a nation is not free until every last stubborn stain of fanaticism is scrubbed out of the social fabric, with the detergent of reason and the spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Look for the state fanatically obsessed with one religion, one culture, one tradition, and there you'll find your own homegrown fascist regime.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“A nation is not free until every last stubborn stain of fanaticism is scrubbed out of the social fabric, with the detergent of reason and the spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Less we holy, more the walls.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Ape religion count the converts, ape democracy count the corpse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Proof of sacred, not obedience,
less we holy, more the walls -
every wall political product,
nation-state is circus hall.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Every wall political product, nation-state is circus hall.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer