Jon Krakauer Quotes

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

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.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

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

One man's cult is another man's religion.

We need a new religion.

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Religion is an irrational construct.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

I am a zealot, and I am wildly proud of it.

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

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

One strength of the Communist system ... is that it has some of the characteristics of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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

I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes