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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Robertson Davies

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Phillips, Wendell

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.

Cowper, William

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Gibbon, Edward

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism

Thomas Jefferson

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim

Santayana, George

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

Cowper, William

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and superstition, the father of intolerance and persecution.

Fletcher, Samuel

The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest man may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues.

Grimm, Friedrich, Baron Von

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this.

Hall, Robert

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured, and yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is regarded as a sign of hostility to religion.

Whipple, Edwin Percy

We discover in the gospels, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication

Thomas Jefferson

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism

Paul-Henri

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

Voltaire

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of life.

Robert Hall

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

Cat Stevens

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Hans Kung

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice

Kronenberger, Louis

Of all things wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

Edmund Burke

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Anna Jameson

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Dr. Carl Sagan