Marcus Sakey Quotes

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

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

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

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

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.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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.

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

I don't think any extremism is rational.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

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.

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding.

Nothing is so sure of itself as fanaticism.

Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme"—

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds -- that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.