King Hussein Quotes

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

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that where ever others differ from them it is so far error.

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.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don't want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

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.

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

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

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

If you have ideology, you are less tolerant of the variant point of view.

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.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes.

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

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

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.