The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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Related I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to iden... ANDREW GREELEY Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike... RUPERT SHELDRAKE Fundamentalism represents a rebellion against modern secular society, the separation of religion and... KAREN ARMSTRONG One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is beca... MOBY There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ dri... ABHIJIT NASKAR Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United S... KAREN ARMSTRONG Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalist... THOMAS SOWELL It was as though all the most fundamentalist people of all three religions had descended upon the Ol... JARED BROCK There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion -... PATRICK WILSON Conservative Roman Catholicism and evangelical fundamentalists are growing, ... Hysterical people ar... BISHOP JOHN SHELBY SPONG Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art ROBIN TYLER I'm an old-fashioned guy. There are two kinds of coaches: schemers and fundamentalists. Fundamentali... GLENN MASON Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, ex... BRUNO DUMONT How you like to style your fencing is really up to your temperament. Some people are aggressive and ... DION SHIVELY This is how you falsify reality, ... The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It's t... MAHESH BHATT The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terror... VLADIMIR PUTIN We do not have control of the source code for those third-party applications. Microsoft is very sens... MARK RADKE It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fun... RITA DOVE Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and wil... MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK The anti-choice forces are political extremists and religious fundamentalists, who are looking to ma... CHERYL SABEL Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whet... MICHAEL GOVE That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I... TREY PARKER There are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House ... JOHN PILGER Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study cla... LAURA MORIARTY Becoming empowered and beginning to talk and take back control is a scary thing....very scary. Those... CATHY GIPSON Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER But unlike Paul, his alternatives present him with a "double avoidance conflict"-neither is acceptab... ROBERT M. PRICE All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalis... TERRY PRATCHETT The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up a... EDMUND BURKE Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut... CHRISTINA ENGELA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been... VINE DELORIA JR. Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, no... ANTHONY JOSHUA This is an opportunity for people to look at something they might be afraid of and make a determinat... DAVID GOROSH Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emi... DIOGENES It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental. KEN KESEY I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quit... E. O. WILSON Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious tho... BELL HOOKS These changes are not targeted at changing the hearts and minds of the Darwin fundamentalists, JOHN CALVERT We're increasing the allocations, which is a bit of a marketing game. It's not that most customers r... BARBARA BRANAMAN Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. Th... DONALD ANDERSON What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizin... ALEXANDER HAIG Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM They would like to have the tools with which they can hit the people and shut the people up, and I t... EMILY LAU You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of con... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It is very difficult to prevent violence at a protest where a huge number of people are gathered, es... AJIRAWID SUBARNBHESAJ [T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values t... JARED DIAMOND the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values tha... JARED DIAMOND We are really appealing to people who are strongly against the war; that is a really strong issue fo... FORREST HILL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA I know that it is a very sensitive issue. ABDULLAH ABDULLAH Over the past 18 months, people have become very interested in the notion of IT governance as a way ... AMY WOHL I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God PEOPLE OF CHRIST Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, th... C.J. SANSOM While it may seem amusing at first, this is really a very serious issue. The more people do their pa... JUDY DALY It is difficult for us to convince people that yes, this is possible. I have to make the assumption ... PETER ASHDOWN To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians,... ABHIJIT NASKAR One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous... ROBERT BADEN-POWELL It has to be a racial issue, because a lot of people are afraid of cultural issues. ELIAS BERMUDEZ We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a... ROBIN WILLIAMS A lot of people fail because they come into it thinking they're going to make unbelievable amounts o... MARC FRIEDFERTIG Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their id... REZA ASLAN They're really preying on people who are vulnerable, and that's a shame. The other issue with this i... BOB CASEY The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generousl... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for seve... MAGGIE GALLAGHER It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh... ALFRED SMITH It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh... ALFRED E. SMITH It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh... AL SMITH Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and... EDGAR LEE MASTERS When you're running a business, the worst thing that can happen is four different people expressing ... DON LEACH Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological ... AZAR NAFISI We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with t... AJIBIKE AKINKOYE People that oppose the bond issue do so on purely financial terms, ... Especially older people ... s... GEORGE CARTER Foreign rightwing fundamentalists attacked the United States. Domestic rightwing fundamentalists too... BEN MANSKI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action agai... TASLIMA NASRIN To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. LEO TOLSTOY People feel that this is defining an important part of who they are. Making them give it up is a dif... HUMERA KHAN Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the corner - stone is laid ... EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do... WALTER BAGEHOT Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do... WALTER BAGEHOT PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I If there is one point we try to drive home, it is: Use your head. A very high percentage of our thef... FRANK SCAFIDI It is going to make it more difficult for people without problems to band together. But it is not go... BOB CARLSON The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is t... DAVID JAMES DUNCAN Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To sa... DAVID ICKE Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion. ABHIJIT NASKAR People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with it... BILL HICKS If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home... ABHIJIT NASKAR One of the reasons people wait to do their taxes is they're afraid they'll owe, or if they do owe, t... MAGGIE DOEDTMAN Government must make the public transport affordable for the user for it to be a success. Increasing... JOSEPH MUSCAT Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with peopl... PIPPA EVANS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY
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