When fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression.
-- H. L. Mencken
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Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. The fanatics of various hues eye each other with suspicion and are ready to fly at each other’s throat. But they are neighbors and almost of one family. They hate each other with the hatred of brothers.
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 13, § 62 (3.13.62) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/6656/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #extremism #extremist #fanatic #fanaticism #hatred #moderate #moderation #onetrueway #opposites #truebeliever
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A quotation from Francis Bacon
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and that, which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
Essay (1612), “Of Youth and Age,” Essays, No. 42 (1625)More about this quote: wist.info/bacon-francis/85461/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #francisbacon #enthusiasm #overenthusiasm #action #fanaticism #headstrong #hotheadedness #impulse #insistence #principle #youth
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The fiercest fanatics are often selfish people who were forced, by innate shortcomings or external circumstances, to lose faith in their own selves. They separate the excellent instrument of their selfishness from their ineffectual selves and attach it to the service of some holy cause. And though it be a faith of love and humility they adopt, they can be neither loving nor humble.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 7, § 38 (2.7.38) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/67490/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #cause #devotion #ego #faith #fanaticism #fanatics #fierceness #holywar #selfishness #service #truebelievers
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 75 (3.14.75) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11110/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #dedication #fanaticism #grievance #hatred #holywar #massmovement #meaning #meaningoflife #meaninglessness #purpose #purposelessness #truebeliever #follower
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There is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in this, our culture; it is rooted in our history and it has broken out many times in the past. It is with us now; there has been a sharp rise in strongly evangelical sects in this country in recent years, some of which hold beliefs theocratic in the extreme, anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, and anti-libertarian.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Essay (1952-10), “Concerning Stories Never Written,” Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #heinlein #robertheinlein #robertaheinlein #America #evangelicalism #extremism #fanaticism #religion #religiousright #theocracy
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Look, I'm not saying another purge will solve ALL of our problems, but...
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Look, I'm not saying another purge will solve ALL of our problems, but...
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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We must come to the Principles of Jesus. But, when will all Men and all Nations do as they would be done by? Forgive all Injuries and love their Enemies as themselves? I leave those profound Phylosophers whose Sagacity perceives the Perfectibility of Humane Nature, and those illuminated Theologians who expect the Apocalyptic Reign, to enjoy their transporting hopes; provided always that they will not engage us in Crusades and French Revolutions, nor burn us for doubting.
John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas JeffersonMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/83698/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #progress #forgiveness #extremism #fanaticism #goldenrule #hope #humannature #humanity #ideal #Jesus #loveyourenemy #loveyourneighbor #zealotry
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Real preacher, or grimdark 40k quote?
https://piefed.social/c/grimdank/p/1951799/real-preacher-or-grimdark-40k-quote
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Prodigy is at its essence: adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.
-- Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OctaviaEButler #Adaptability #Fanaticism #Persistence #Prodigy
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When fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression.
-- H. L. Mencken -
MAGA attacks show how thoroughly Christian extremism has hijacked the GOP: report
https://www.alternet.org/republican-party-christian-nationalists/
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Religious extremism is a global problem. Like Muslim fanatics, Jewish and Christian fanatics also condemn, assault and even murder queers. #australia #hatecrime #LGBTQIA+ #queerlove #islam #judaism #christianity #religiousextremism #farright #fanaticism https://jtak.scholasticahq.com/article/70212-a-clash-of-creed-the-paradox-of-lgbtq-pride-within-orthodox-judaism
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Where is the Australian Government's Special Envoy for the LGBTQIA+ Community? #australia #hatecrime #LGBTQIA+ #queerlove #isis #religiousextremism #farright #fanaticism
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/lgbtq-sydney-teenagers-bashed-on-camera-in-is-inspired-attacks/106381614 -
There is no place for #nationalism in science,
there is no place for #fanaticism in holiness,
there is no place for #hate-commerce in arts,
there is no place for #borders in consciousness.Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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#Dumbness doesn't have #ethnicity, but #fanaticism of ethnicity only establishes that ethnicity as the #dumbest bunch of apes on #earth.
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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#Dumbness doesn't have #ethnicity, but #fanaticism of ethnicity only establishes that ethnicity as the #dumbest bunch of apes on #earth.
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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“He aspired not only to spiritual leadership but also to political power. Rather than earn the devotion of his followers, Strang demanded that his councilors take a comprehensive oath of fealty during a private ceremony, replete with the theatrics of secret handshakes and gestures.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/03/he-aspired-not-only-to-spiritual-leadership-but-also-to-political-power-rather-than-earn-the-devotion-of-his-followers-strang-demanded-that-his-councilors-take-a-comprehensive-oath-of-fealty-durin/ #aspired #BeaverIsland #book #BrighamYoung #comprehensive #conspiracy #councilors #demanded #devotion #earn #fanaticism #followers #gestures #gothicDrama #highTragedy #history #JamesStrang #JohnJMiller #JosephSmith #LakeMichigan #LatterDaySaints #mormonism #Nonfiction #oathOfFealty #politicalPower #Polygamy #pride #privateCeremony #quote #ReligionSpirituality #repleteWith #secretHandshakes #sex #spiritualLeadership #theatrics #violence -
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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We were not aware that there existed in the midst of our own Country, and in the present day, a spirit of fanaticism, so base, so wicked & so bloody, as to brake forth into a frenzy of unprovoked violence, not only against the most respectable characters, but against knowledge & science themselves.
James Currie (1756-1805) Scottish physician, biographer
Letter (1791-07) to Joseph Priestley for the Liverpool Dissenters (draft)More about this quote: wist.info/currie-james/80394/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamescurrie #josephpriestley #antiscience #fanaticism #knowledge #mob #science
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If you feel in your mind a restlessness that you should be doing more to fix your situation, that you could be spending your time better, and if you watch a video or listen to a podcast from somebody who puts that restlessness at ease by saying, "Hey, it's not your fault. It's due to capitalism or the billionaires or this demographic group. It's the government. It's the economy."
If that quiets that fire inside you, that restlessness that makes you want to change your situation, then they have poisoned you.
They have put a toxin into your bloodstream.
From
Is the "Male Loneliness Epidemic" Self-Inflicted?by Jason K. Pargin.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InMtCxy_Yaw
https://www.youtube.com/@JasonKPargin
#fanaticism #liberalism #maleloneliness #malelonelinessepidemic
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When fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression.
-- H. L. Mencken -
There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.
-- James Joyce -
#Quotes #Literature #Bigotry #Fanaticism
I think we all understand not everyone who aren't well read are bigots or fanatics, but holy hell, some, even many, ARE.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities. -Northrop Frye, writer and critic (14 Jul 1912-1991) -
When I criticize #religious #fanaticism, I am not criticizing all #religion, or all #religious #believers. If this concept makes you uncomfortable, think really hard about why, and what you might be able to do about that. Protip: whining in the comments on #atheists' posts isn't it.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BertrandRussell #Fanaticism #Fools #Stupidity #Wisdom
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James Hogg & Mikhail Bulgakov
In the latest London Review of Books podcast, Marina Warner & Adam Thirlwell look at how James Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER & Bulgakov’s THE MASTER & MARGARITA represent fanaticism, be it Calvinism or Bolshevism, & consider why both writers used the fantastical to test reality
#Scottish #Russian #Soviet #literature #JamesHogg #MikhailBulgakov #gothic #horror #fanaticism #Calvinism #Bolshevism #fantasy
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Ok eat your #durian but #insatiable #fanaticism for the #fruit is endangering #orangutan habitat
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/search-worlds-best-durian-where-divisive-fruit-prized-reviled-180986806/ #wildlife
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Long before 9/11, when Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by Netanyahu goons, #AIPAC #Extremism #Likud religious #fanaticism was normalized in #Congress by lobbyists.
#bigotry #racism #ethnicCleansing #Aparthheid #Genocide have been "mainstreamed" in American politics and news media as acceptable points of order, carefully managed by public relations departments to not just come out and say it.
And so it goes.
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"A modern State cannot make atheism or religion one of its political ordinances.
~ Pope John Paul II
#popejohnpaulii #johnpaulii #jpii #politics #government #religion #religions #atheism #fanaticism #secularism #freedomofreligion #spirituality #quote #quotes #rememberthis #faith #thisispolitical #sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ
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In 3d world #America... today!
'Pastor' #Dillon #Awes said that the "solution" to #gay people is presented in the #Bible:
"They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head."Any #fanaticism is wrong, #religious fanaticism the most dangerous.
(The rule that if a group finds itself facing a situation of extreme survival
it is good to eliminate those who start praying... has a reason to be)"Pastor" (my ass) Awes should at least be thrown in jail for inciting murder.
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You are absolutely right
#Europeans had to fight for centuries for every right and freedom
#Americans did not
(Only the 'colored' had to fight, constantly abused)
#US is a "union" of profoundly racist #States
in which politics is mixed with a perverse #religious #fanaticismWhite Americans are deeply ignorant without a true social cohesion
they embrace #fascism because it allows racial repression and crueltyTrump 'torn the veil' shown the real face of Americans
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"Republican and Democratic administrations alike have long supported and funded Israel as a crucial ally. And there have been bipartisan efforts to counter criticism of Israel by labeling a range of speech and organizing in support of Palestinian rights as support for terrorism. But Project Esther aims to go further, equating actions such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests with providing “material support” for terrorism, a broad legal construct that can lead to prison time, deportations, civil penalties and other serious consequences.
“Project Esther changed the paradigm by associating anyone who opposes Israeli policies with the ‘Hamas Support Network,’” said Jonathan Jacoby, the national director of the Nexus Project, a watchdog group that works to combat antisemitism and protect open debate. “It’s no longer about ideology or politics; it’s about terrorism and threats to American national security.”
Heritage describes Project Esther as a “groundbreaking” national strategy to fight antisemitism that aims not to censor opinions but to hold people it deems to be supporters of Hamas, a designated terrorist group, responsible for their actions. But critics such as Mr. Jacoby say the think tank is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to advance its broader agenda of radically reshaping higher education and crushing progressive movements more generally.
Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right. It has drawn criticism from many Jewish organizations amid increasing calls for them to push back against the Trump administration."
#USA #HeritageFoundation #ProjectEsther #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Gaza #Antisemitism #Propaganda #Fanaticism #Ideology
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“Let us disarm #communication of all #prejudice and resentment, #fanaticism and even #hatred; let us free it from #aggression,” #PopeLeo told more than 1,000 #journalists, including the #Vatican Press corps, who gathered in an auditorium in Vatican City on May 12, 2025. “We do not need #loud, forceful communication but rather communication that is capable of listening,” he added, delivering his address in #Italian. #peace #liberty #democracy #journalism #civilliberties #freedom
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May is book's month in Uruguay, May 26th being National Book's Day. I promised to release my books freely in a #FediverseEdition proposal.
I expected to do that in their original language (Spanish).
Translation is a full time professional job which I am not prepared to do. However, some LLM helped me improve a bit my amateur translation attempt of my opera prima The Hungarian Soprano.The main story is a nonlinear chronology which mirrors the dissonant harmonies of La Traviata.
Its structure forces the reader to become the investigator, piecing together a conspiracy the text refuses to spell out.It is a historical fiction work covering espionage, arms traffic, government cover-ups spanning South America and Europe during the Yugoslavian wars.
The prose’s clinical tone (dates, decrees, serial numbers) sharpens the horror, making The hungarian soprano's death feel not like fiction, but like history’s darkest aria.
Six more parts await inside covering #fanaticism, #prejudice, #mystery, #psychedelia, #travel, #alcoholism, #friendship, #africa, #trans, #MedecinsSansFrontieres, #southamerica, #Brazil, #tarot and more.
Hope you enjoy it. If you feel like #commenting, #sharing or #rating it, thanks in advance.
Completely #free. :cc_cc: This book is distributed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
https://cloud.undernet.uy/s/jxozFDWGZcaNR3Q
Entirely written in #FOSS.
#uruguay #bookstodon #books #epub #TheHungarianSoprano #operaprima #fiction #historicalfiction #Latex #calibre #bechdelpass
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When fanatics are on top, there is no limit to oppression.
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Some time ago
I had predicted that the #MAGAs tribal #religious #fanaticism
would align #America to backward country such as Iran or AfghanistanNow I see that #Trump went full 'fundamentalist'
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. Bitter internecine hatreds, based on such differences, are signs not of earnestness of belief but of that fanaticism which, whether religious or anti-religious, democratic or anti-democratic, is itself but a manifestation of the gloomy bigotry which has been the chief factor in the downfall of so many, many nations.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, ParisSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #beliefs #bigotry #conviction #coexistence #democracy #differences #division #fanaticism #growth #hatred #opinion #republic #tolerance #tribalism #zeal
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A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:
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In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike ar…
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/74201/#quote #quotes #quotation #beliefs #bigotry #democracy #fanaticism #hatred #opinion #republic #tolerance #tribalism #zeal
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There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.
-- James Joyce⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesJoyce #Barbarism #Fanaticism
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Winston Churchill⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Fanaticism
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