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Fanatical Quotes

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. Mercedes Lackey
Bryant H. McGill quote: "Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people..."
Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy. Bryant H. McGill
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures..."
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. Friedrich Nietzsche
Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously man-made. Fanatics (and many are fanatic on one subject or another) must know where you stand, but more important, must recognise who whispers in your ear." -... Frank Herbert
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped... Boris Pasternak
[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. Jared Diamond
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one... Gilbert K. Chesterton
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer
We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics. Orson Scott Card
Steve McManaman quote: "I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic."
I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic. Steve McManaman
Bill Gates quote: "I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still..."
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical. Bill Gates
Danny Masterson quote: "I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic."
I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic. Danny Masterson
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do. George Saintsbury
The proletariat could plan to massacre the whole ruling class; a fanatic Jew or black could dream of seizing the secret of the atomic bomb and turning all of humanity entirely Jewish or entirely black: but a woman could not even dream of exterminating males. The tie that binds her to her oppressors is unlike any other. The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history. Their opposition took shape within an original Mitsein, and she has not broken it. The couple is... Simone de Beauvoir
Poul Anderson quote: "A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose,..."
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort. Poul Anderson

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