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FANATICISM
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[ Also see Dogmatism Extremism Intolerance Monomania Neutrality Politics Positiveness Prejudice Radicalism Sects Terrorism Zeal ]

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

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
      - Will Rogers

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
      - George Santayana

Reason is not compatible with zeal run mad.
      - Bishop Robert South

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
      - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
      - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.
      - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.
      - Bishop William Warburton

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
      - Archbishop Richard Whately

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.
      - Edwin Percy Whipple

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
      - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)


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