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

“Don't take anyone seriously who spends more time at the bar than at the bookstore, but also, don't take anyone seriously who obeys one book verbatim and calls it law.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Mythology is not history, history begins outside fairy story.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When there is no real enemy to find, nationalism invents make believe enemies, usually in the shape of internal minorities.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't quit rehab until you're denazified, don't go off the meds until you're unzionized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't leave the sanitarium till you no longer confuse the voices in your head as divine decree, and the blood in your veins as god's own bloodline.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't assume you understand Naskar
(Sonnet 2972)

Naskar Science is Naskar Theology
is Naskar Poetry is Naskar Philosophy -

and do not even dare to assume
you know what this means,
unless you've left your seat
to the elderly on a bus,

joined the religious festivities
of a neighbor from a different faith,
defended someone's right to worship
despite being an atheist yourself,

offered a glass of water to
someone from a different culture,
or sheltered an immigrant family
from your nation's fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a neighbor from a different faith, defended someone's right to worship despite being an atheist yourself, offered a glass of water to someone from a different culture, or sheltered an immigrant family from your nation's fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Any book, old or new, that claims to hold all the answers to life, is a scam.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“There is no grand design, no chosen land, only beating hearts and helping hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Society is the biggest impediment to humanity, because most of what we call society is secondhand.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Mythology as mythology is great literature, but mythology as history is fake literature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Beware of fanatics bearing good news, but also beware of aristocrats bearing reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“All customs don't make culture, customs rooted in fanaticism must be rooted out, so that actual human culture can take root.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“It's of no consequence, what the monkeys feel; xenophobia belongs in DSM, not in democracy. Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran, all are welcome, but Nazism, Zionism, Hindutva, Islamism, belong in medical case history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Someone’s non-existence shouldn’t be worth more than your existence.”
― Abhaidev, Notes from the Edge of Sanity

“Militant atheism is to overfed aristocratic twits what manifestation is to rich whitewashed women.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Organized religion thrives on domesticated cows, organized politics thrives on domesticated wolves, organized cartels don't want their flock to come alive - disciples who think, are disciples no good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Animal roots are planted by inherited habits, human roots are planted by good deeds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Monkeys think culture comes from rituals, sheep think holiness comes from scripture, all the while defeating the purpose of being, by outsourcing their becoming to vultures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human