Fanatic Quotes (page 5)

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• evening
• may
• consider

It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the... James Baldwin

• humanity
• top
• government

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. H. L. Mencken

• psychology
• doubt
• manly

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley

• doubt
• manly
• doubted

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley

• religious
• look
• saying

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it. Stephen Fry

• style
• effort
• stubborn

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. Gustave Flaubert

• food
• healthy food
• fanatical

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. Gloria Swanson

• people
• rock
• fanatical

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. James Ellroy

• real
• free
• evening

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. Esther Dyson

• thinking
• manly
• doings

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. Finley Peter Dunne

• good
• growing up
• fitness

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible. Josh Duhamel

• children
• understanding
• people

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this. Kay Bailey Hutchison

• art
• engagement
• thinking

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. Will Eisner

• mindfulness
• book
• mind

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. Richard Dawkins

• age
• wellness
• aged

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9. Armistead Maupin