John Lydon Quotes

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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

I am dealing with fanaticism.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism…

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

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.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

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.

Obstinacy in religious understanding leads to backwardness as in Muslims’, prevalence of violence and intolerance.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.

All extremists derive from one pool. This extreme mind-set is nurtured by religious rhetoric that needs to be reformed.

Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.

Religious extremism. We hear about it all the time. We see it all the time. Heck, most of us are just sick of talking about it all the time.

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.

Fundamentalism is rooted in fear, and it's another reason I'm interested in the horror genre, because I know the fear that fundamentalism is built upon.

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

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

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.