Dean Koontz Quotes

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

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

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.

My skepticism warns me of the danger of becoming a fanatic, a danger which no faith has yet averted.

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

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

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

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

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.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

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

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

The fanatic is dangerous.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.