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“An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.”

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Author:Daniel Barenboim

“I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.”

Thinking Needs Should Fighting Belief Religious Leader Particular Agree Threat Extremes Allies Fundamentalism Moderates Rubbish Religious Belief Muster Religious Leaders Canterbury

Author:Martin Rees

“My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.”

Religious Enemy Wings Fundamentalism Right Wing Religious Fundamentalism

Author:William J. Clinton

“Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.”

Kind War Government Order Fighting Teaching Gun West Jew Civil War Fundamentalism Jihad

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.”

People Thinking Book Judging Gay Islam Fundamentalism Gay People Speaking Up Judging A Book By Its Cover

Author:Elton John

“I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.”

Thinking Has Beens Government Successful Propaganda Our Society Fundamentalism Involvement Government Involvement

Author:George Soros

“Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.”

“There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.”

Christian Interest Limits Function Appreciation Ignorant Fundamentalism

Author:Moby

“I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.”

Self Christian Belief Religious Prejudice Destructive Fundamentalism Loathing Religious Belief Self Loathing

Author:Anne Lamott

“There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.”

Believe Pain America I Believe Known Right Now Response Frustration Fundamentalism Unraveling

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem”

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Author:Sam Harris

“I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Christian Jesus Christ Christianity Hell Jesus Christ Built Greed Fundamentalism

Author:Matthew Fox

“This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.”

People Use Lying Religious Criminals Fundamentalism Obscenity

Author:Anwar Sadat

“Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.”

Way Lasts Past Fundamentalism Hysterical

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.”

Thinking World Mean Has Beens Perfect Becoming Notion Nationalism Fundamentalism Perfect Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.”

Firsts Movement Commitment Fellows Males Believer Superiors Overwhelming Fundamentalism

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions.”

Thinking Asks Answers Fundamentalism

Author:Robert M. Price

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

World Ideas Modern Dangerous Complexes Fundamentalism Rigidity

Author:Michael Crichton

“A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.”

Enough Desire Church Attitude Clear Modern Wind Ego Built Ultimate Oneself Doctrine Good Enough Sole Dictatorship Fundamentalism Definite Here And There Relativism Modern Times Credo

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.”

World Different Ends Helping Three Dialogue Followers Fundamentalism Confined Muslim World

Author:King Hussein I

“You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.”

“You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.”

Way Stills Left Religious Views Crazy Intense Liberalism Frightening Fundamentalism Moderates Extremism Religious Fundamentalism

Author:Sydney Pollack

“Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.”

World Kind Country Justice Poor Poverty Democracy Violence Plenty Fundamentalism Poor Countries

Author:Robert Fisk

“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”

People Way Writing Book Today Church Poor Clear Method Oneself Creeds Fundamentalism Dissatisfied Book Writing Relativism Praiseworthy Faith Based

Author:Walter Benjamin

“There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Believe Kind Said Political Causes Too Much Poet Poetry Is Fundamentalism

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Fundamentalism is still on the march.”

Stills March Fundamentalism

Author:David Brooks

“There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Religious Bases Suspects Rooted Fundamentalism Conservatism Extremism

Author:Sydney Pollack

“Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.”

Certain Interest Involved Republican Conservative Elites Fundamentalism

Author:Jeff Sharlet

“What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.”

Trying Long Political Interesting Influence Movement Approach Mirrors Starting Elites Fundamentalism Spectrum Political Spectrum

Author:Jeff Sharlet

“Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.”

Sides Corporate Elites Fundamentalism

Author:Jeff Sharlet

“Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.”

Kind Goal Religious Century Conservative Phenomenon Fundamentalism 20th Century Fervor

Author:Jeff Sharlet

“Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.”

Years Spiritual My Own Steps Study Mental Health I Realized Scripture Recovery Damage Twelve Fundamentalism End Times Session Spend Time Therapists Recovering

Author:Richard Rossi

“When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?”

Language Knives Fundamentalism Apostles

Author:Pope Francis

“The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In national polls almost half of those surveyed have reported that they believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. There are similar beliefs about the Second Coming.”

“My problem with all forms of fundamentalism is that the position is fixed. This is like talking about a fixed position as seen from a moving jet: it's disappearing over the horizon with or without your permission.”

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Author:Frank Schaeffer

“I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.”

People Thinking Culture Attitude Identity Civilization Radical Fundamentalism

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because they are in the warm, caring/sharing community. This is the difference between community (Gemeinschaft) and what Ferdinand Tönnies called Gesellschaft: a kind of setting in which you have no rights to do anything unless you pay for it, and no right to get anything unless you prove that you are 'credit worthy'. In a Gemeinschaft, however, you have a place at the table guaranteed whatever happens.”

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Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Democracy is about constant vigilance. It's not straightforward, there will always be setbacks and you get particular be it religious fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalism - a partly conservative approach and actually trying to put women in a more traditional role. And we have to resist that.”

Trying Christian Religious Roles Democracy Particular Approach Constant Conservative Traditional Fundamentalism Straightforward Setback Vigilance

Author:Mary Robinson

“One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder. He was interviewing me on a book I had written on the New Testament of the Bible called Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, and we talked about the dating of the books of the New Testament, and I said, "Well, the consensus is that the gospels were written some forty to seventy years after the crucifixion." And he stopped me and said, "Wait a minute, Bishop, that means they couldn't have been written by eyewitnesses."”

“I was raised pretty much a fundamentalist, but the one thing that fundamentalism gave to me was the love for that book and a commitment to read and study it. The difficulty is that I've read it all, I didn't skip around, I read it all, and when you read it all, you can't take it literally because you don't want to blame God for a lot of stuff that occurs in that book. There are some pretty violent scenes.”

Want Book Stuff Study One Thing Scene Commitment Difficulty Blame Raised Violent Fundamentalism Skip Fundamentalist

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.”

Ifs Kind Today Religious Lines Behinds Accepting Willing Agree Moved Terror Mentality Tolerate Fundamentalism Religious Fundamentalism Expendables

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I wouldn't give up on Russia. I think they have legitimate security concerns from Islamic fundamentalism, not only on their border but in their country.”

Thinking Giving Country Security Giving Up Concern Russia Borders Islamic Fundamentalism Islamic Fundamentalism

Author:John Bolton

“Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.”

People Feels Today Talking Radical Indian Links Fundamentalism Globalization Privatization

Author:Arundhati Roy

“People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.”

People Ifs Way Political Religious Example Becoming Labor Organization Function Unions Classic Fundamentalism Participation Identifying Religious Fundamentalism Labor Union

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.”

May Results Leaving Significant Destroyed Being True Alternatives Islamic Collapse Secular Fundamentalism American Society Islamic Fundamentalism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.”

War Practice Worship Islamic Fundamentalism Islamic Fundamentalism

Author:Marine Le Pen

“There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens to be cloaked in religion, but these are people saying enough is enough. It's happened again and again through history. The good news is that modernism has always won.”

People Looks Reason Enough Happens Happened News Scared Reactions Again And Again Fundamentalism Good News Modernity Modernism Enough Is Enough

Author:Paul Saffo

“It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.”

Two Decades Fundamentalism

Author:Paul Saffo

“I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves.”

Self States United United States Generations Terrible Disease Europe Regard Threat Fundamentalism Younger Generation Recruit

Author:Ninian Smart

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