Joni Mitchell Quotes

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

In a chaotic world, fundamentalism can be a moral compass.

I am dealing with fanaticism.

She died of galloping Christianity of the malignant California type.

Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.

What superstition and fanaticism on every side!

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism…

Men whose religion was excessively zealous split themselves into opposing factions, and once divided by a single mistake they disagreed on everything and came to be entirely at odds with one another.

How many lives have been lost by men who believe God had commanded them to do so?

It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.