Fanatism Quotes

“When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Furthermore, I refuse to wear a burqa. Of all the burdens they've put on us, that's the most degrading. The Shirt of Nessus woudn't do as much damage to my dignity as that wretched getup. It cancels my face and takes away my identity and turns me into an object. Here, at least, I'm me Zunaira, Mohsen Ramat's wife, age thirty-two, former magistrate, dismissed by obscurantists without a hearing and without compensation, but with enough self-respect left to brush my hair every day and pay attention to my clothes. If I put that damned veil on, I'm neither a human being nor an animal, I'm just an affront, a disgrace, a blemish that has to be hidden. That's too hard to deal with. Especially for someone who was a lawyer, who worked for women's rights. Please, I don't want you to think for a minute that I'm putting on some sort of act. I'd like to, you know, but unfortunately my heart's not in it anymore. Don't ask me to give up my name, my features, the color of my eyes, and the shape of my lips so I can take a walk through squalor and desolation. Don't ask me to become something less than a shadow, an anonymus thing rustling around in a hostile place.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul

“Mereka lahir, hidup, dan mati dalam ketidakpuasan. Apa yang mereka bayangkan dan inginkan tidak pernah menjadi kenyataan. Mereka hidup dalam khayalan.”
― Anand Krishna, Indonesia Under Attack! Membangkitkan Kembali Jati Diri Bangsa

“Naphta commença à parler de pieux excès de la charité qu'avait connus le moyen âge, de cas étonnants de fanatisme et d'exaltation dans les soins donnés aux malades : des filles de rois avaient baisé les plaies puantes de lépreux, s'étaient volontairement exposées à la contagion de la lêpre, avaient appelé leurs roses les ulcères qui se formaient sur leur corps, avaient bu l'eau où s'étaient lavés des malades purulents et avaient déclaré ensuite que rien ne leur avait jamais semblé meilleur.
(ch. VI, operationes spirituales)”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Demi kezaliman yang terjadi di Palestina, di Kashmir, di Afganistan, di Irak atau di manapun juga ... kenapa mereka rela menyengsarakan saudara-saudaranya yang sebangsa dan setanahair?

Berarti ada yang salah dengan rasa kebangsaan mereka. Mereka merasa lebih dekat dengan warga asing, dengan negara asing, ketimbang dengan saudara-saudaranya sendiri, dengan bangsa dan negaranya sendiri. Bagi mereka, padang pasir dan pohon kurma menjadi lebih penting ketimbang bumi yang subur ini.”
― Anand Krishna, Indonesia Under Attack! Membangkitkan Kembali Jati Diri Bangsa

“Sangre de Cristo! Blood of Christ! Rivers of blood! Mountains of blood! Does Christ never get tired of bleeding?”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“Hur ska man förhålla sig till människor som knappast är något annat än utropstecken på två ben? Hur ska man stoppa dem som inte skyr några medel?”
― Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic