Zealotry Quotes

Zealotry Quote of the day

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

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

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo