Libba Bray Quotes

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.

Nothing is so sure of itself as fanaticism.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth".

Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.

Atheists are just as obnoxious if not more obnoxious than zealots.

Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.