Bryant H. McGill Quotes

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

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

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

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.

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

Nothing is so sure of itself as fanaticism.

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

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

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

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

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.

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.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

It is in the uncomprisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma that the danger lies.

I desire what is good. Therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor.

Obstinacy and heat of opinion are the surest proof of stupidity.

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others

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 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.

My feeling is that the most dangerous people are always those who take a hardline position - and nothing inspires that sort of extremism like difference.

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

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.