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

“Dogma not divine, myth not holy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Organized religion is the planet’s largest circus, where apes commodify divinity to sell tickets – more divide means more fear, means more control, divine distant from human is the holy grail of commerce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“More divide means more fear, means more control, divine distant from human is the holy grail of commerce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Give the monkeys cinema and sports, they'll sleep through armageddon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Wardenclyffe Human (Sonnet)

Give the monkeys cinema and sports,
they'll sleep through armageddon;
cinema is a great propaganda device,
sports are an opiate of distraction.

Good filmmaking elevates the mind,
but fanatic fans only carry manure;
playing sports elevates the body,
but backseat players are raving boar.

The average monkey may not know,
that the earth spins around the sun,
but ask about their favorite celebrity,
and they become wikipedia in person.

Vegetable, you are not, so don't go soggy;
nothing more sad than brain becoming bacon!
You are Wardenclyffe, you are Nalanda,
you're the source and sink of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Mythology combined with blind faith results in mass hysteria.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There are two kinds of divinity in the world, doctrinal divinity and human divinity - doctrinal divinity is less holy, more prejudice, whereas human divinity prioritizes humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Existence is the mightiest revolt against prejudice, irrelevance is the loudest response to inhumanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I don't engage with fanatics, for the same reason I don't consume alcohol, it's a ridiculous waste of brain cells. Don't waste your brainpower dignifying bigots, redirect all your neurochemical electricity to power a new world, nonchalant to accusations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Living holiness happens outside the pulpit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“No Rome, no Reich, no Zion, above the human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I feel sick to my stomach when apes salute one flag and burn another, my blood begins to boil when apes worship one scripture and burn another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Every monkey thinks toxic masculinity is nobility, every monkey thinks blind faith is divinity, every ape thinks tribalism is divine fury, and brainless loyalty is patriotic duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Every ape thinks their flag is the flag of god, every ape thinks their land is the land of god, every ape thinks their lingo is the lingo of god, every ape thinks their text is the text of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Stagnation kills consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“In a planet of apes, if you want power and control, all you have to do is sell fear - sell fear, blood, rage, the lot - if you are in politics sell fear, if you are in religion sell hate, if you are in cinema sell rage, but never call them by their real name, always package it in modern language, package bloodshed as patriotism, package fanaticism as tradition, package derangement as righteousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Dumbness doesn't have ethnicity, but fanaticism of ethnicity only establishes that ethnicity as the dumbest bunch of apes on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Evolution of apes to human begins with one person disposing of their flag in a museum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Monkeys make monkeys famous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot