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Ali Iqbal

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“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

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“We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

tags: celebrity, religious-extremism, zealotry

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

tags: cults, delusion, extremism, fanaticism, fanatics, guerrilla-decontextualism, madness, mental-health, neurosis, political-extremism, psychosis, religious-extremism, self-deception, zealots

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“The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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