The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; it's great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hinduism, Mohammedanism, or Christianity, have always been almost exclusively recruited from these worshippers [sic] on the lower planes of Bhakti. That singleness of attachment (Nishthâ) to a loved object, without which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the denunciation of everything else. All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e., by hating every other ideal. Herein is the explanation of why the same man who is so lovingly attached to his own ideal of God, so devoted to his own ideal of religion, becomes a howling fanatic as soon as he sees or hears anything of any other ideal.
Swami VivekanandaTag: love fanaticism hate devotion bhakti
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
Gregory David RobertsTag: fanaticism
A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.
Robert E. HowardTag: fanaticism extremism extremists
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
Paul TillichTag: love fanaticism faith
It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth.
David CecilTag: fanaticism evil religion faith fundamentalism good-intentions unintended-consequences crimes-against-humanity political-murder
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: fanaticism madness self-deception delusion zealots neurosis mental-health extremism fanatics psychosis cults religious-extremism guerrilla-decontextualism political-extremism
... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom of a heap of atrocities committed by all sides.
Howard ZinnTag: fanaticism war
In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did a diabolical thing because he loved his truth so lewdly that he dared anything in order to destroy falsehood.
Umberto EcoTag: fanaticism christianity religion prophets
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; it has made all monstrous and widely pervading persecutions. In this degree it was not the people who cared who ever persecuted; the people who cared were not sufficiently numerous. It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack. There have come some persecutions out of the pain of a passionate certainty; but these produced, not bigotry, but fanaticism--a very different and a somewhat admirable thing. Bigotry in the main has always been the pervading omnipotence of those who do not care crushing out those who care in darkness and blood.
G.K. ChestertonTag: fanaticism oppression ideas bigotry moral-crusade
في الحياة ليس العدو الحاقد المسلح بأخطر وأشد ضررا للـ" شيخ " من مريد متعصب متفان لكن لاعقل له.
Ali ShariatiTag: fanaticism fanatic
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