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

“Mirage mistaken as message, when ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“You can be sacred without being superstitious.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Every Time An Ape is Born (Sonnet 2410)

Every time an ape is born, adult apes rush to assign its nation, religion, and culture - thus an entire species is raised as ape, lives as ape, and dies as ape, never to become human.

There's no conspiracy, just convention, for this setup is ideal for profit, it's ideal for political power - more divided the apes are, less they question what's inhuman,

which is why infant apes are brainwashed day in, day out: 'our culture is truth supreme, other cultures are alien' -

even the schools are plugged into this system, along with the media, all aimed at one systemic objective, apes must never become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Every time an ape is born, adult apes rush to assign its nation, religion, and culture - thus an entire species is raised as ape, lives as ape, and dies as ape, never to become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Nationality and religion are like blood groups, it has no relation to human capacity and character, despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Nationality and religion are like blood groups, it has no relation to human capacity and character, despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories; morons are found in every corner of the world, just like mavericks are found in every corner.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“To salute the flag is just as animal as burning a flag, to obey the scripture blind is just as savage as burning a scripture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Ellis, take a photo with me!" someone called, and Rosemary heard a "Not right now, sorry," response from Ellis, and then she saw him. A pair of women had looped their arms into his, effectively locking him in place unless he purposefully struggled free. Which he wouldn't do, because he was too polite.
"Excuse me, you're going to take your hands off him right now," Rosemary said loudly, all anxiety about the heaving crowd vanishing in the face of Ellis's struggle. She spoke with her firmest, sternest Southern drawl. It was the voice she'd heard her mama use countless times on her in childhood, and it did something to people. It made them pay attention and it brooked no disrespect.”
― Nadia El-Fassi, Love at First Fright

“Superstition in Our Marrow (Sonnet 2428)

Earth is a planet of apes,
ivory tower apes diss faith out of reason,
pulpit apes diss reason out of faith -

then there are the newage apes,
chasing goat yoga, chakra penetration,
fortune cards, and aura farming,
who diss both conventional religion
and science, for they've found a more
self-absorbed method of hallucination.

Superstition runs through the marrow
of the human race, with each new generation
it merely changes costume.
Religion is superstition,
intellect is superstition,
newage spirituality is superstition -

from the sharpest of reason to the blindest of faith,
eventually all end up in superstition,
because in pursuit of a meaning higher than life,
we get disconnected from simple miracles of nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm done trying to please everybody,
the academic robot,
the religious fanatic,
the newage crackpot -
I'm done tiptoeing on eggshells.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I never had any interest in making a case for or against god, my struggle is far more real, against dogma disguised as divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“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