#fanaticism

"Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it."

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."[My Uncle Sosthenes]"

"fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."

"People who change their religion should face the death penalty."

"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."

"[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy."

"There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything."

"There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty."

"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."

"What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"

"Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it."

"From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable."