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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. -- Will Rogers
A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I was never a fanatical movie person. -- John Malkovich
Good habits are worth being fanatical about. -- John Irving
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones. -- Natalie Imbruglia
Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years. -- Jerome Hines
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. -- Gustave Flaubert
Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. -- James Ellroy
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. -- Isaac Mayer Wise
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical. -- Chester Bennington
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
Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when 'Jolene' was a big hit. -- Dolly Parton
I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it. -- Donatella Versace
I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education. -- Cesare Beccaria
I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher. When I do watch TV, I watch the news. -- Matthew Davis
I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated. -- Allan Savory
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. -- Leslie Charteris
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors. -- Jandy Nelson
My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo', and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air. -- Dave Willis
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
We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi. -- Wayne Coyne
I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe. -- Afrika Bambaataa
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate. -- Robert Dallek
The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it. -- Tony Parsons
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form. -- Martha Beck
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. -- Paul Johnson
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved. -- Brendan Myers
One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day. -- Matthew Davis
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. -- Eric Hoffer
When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious. -- Justin Hartley
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible. -- Bertrand Russell
New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way. -- Mason Cooley
Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years. -- Jerome Hines
I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny. -- Jackie Schaffer
Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview -- Jonathan Ive
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal. -- Roger Hodgson
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. -- George Santayana
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical. -- Blaise Pascal
Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. -- Immanuel Kant
The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd. -- Voltaire
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. -- Arthur Koestler
If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical. -- Woodrow Wyatt
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. -- Harold Bloom
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There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing. -- David Schuller
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening. -- David O. Russell
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. -- Simon Gray
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms -- Bertrand Russell
Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't. -- Marlene Dietrich
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence -- Bertrand Russell
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
Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance. -- Sam Harris
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life... -- Adolf Hitler
Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism. -- Bertrand Russell
Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source. -- Albert Einstein
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook. -- Adolf Hitler
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac. -- Aldous Huxley
Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history. -- Jacques Barzun
It's a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery -- Markus Zusak
I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius. -- Robert Pattinson
Proliferation of fanatical religious terrorists with safe harbors in broken countries, and the means to obtain and the will to use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on our soil. -- Pete Olson
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it. -- Octavio Paz
I wouldn't call Trump supporters or Sanders supporters fanatical. One thing, I would say they're very discouraged with where things are. I don't think in either case they're fanatical. -- Cass Sunstein
Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth. -- Wafa Sultan
Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out -- Ludwig von Mises
This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States. -- Isabel Allende
Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life. -- Frederick Lenz
It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time. -- Voltaire
Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life. -- Frederick Lenz
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy. -- Winston Churchill
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order. -- Adolf Hitler
Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. -- Adolf Hitler
The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds. -- Dean Koontz
In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics. -- Pat Robertson
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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical. -- Frank Herbert
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher. -- Frederick Lenz
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher. -- Frederick Lenz
Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven. -- Jane Goodall
You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

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