Carlos Mencia Quotes

I don't think any extremism is rational.

I am dealing with fanaticism.

Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

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.

All movements go too far.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Terror … is often the result of giving politics a sacred, absolute dimension.

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

It's never a good sign when extremism becomes the norm.

'Savior Of Nothing' calls out the would-be social justice warriors of the world who become so enveloped in fighting so passionately that they become exactly what they're trying to correct. They preach acceptance so much they become unaccepting.

I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

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

Looking back at the worst times [in history], 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 the matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agreed with them.

Extremism, under whatever guise, fanaticism of whatever kind, factionalism of whatever persuasion would be faithful, poisonous plants and the soil of our country which will not be allowed to flourish.

My constant efforts are directed against ultras of all kinds.

Nothing is so sure of itself as fanaticism.

…his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy…. he is a contemptible hypocrite.

It is a dangerously short step from frustration to fanaticism.

Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

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.