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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. -- Yann Martel
Fanatics clouded by self-justification. -- Toba Beta
Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em? -- John Flanagan
Fanatics don't wanna see anything from another standpoints. -- Toba Beta
Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity. -- William J. Clinton
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. -- John Keats
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time. -- Gregory David Roberts
Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them. -- Nikki Giovanni
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell
Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction -- Oscar Wilde
The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques. -- Rami Ollaik
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious. -- Mark Twain
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
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots. -- Vanna Bonta
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. -- William J. Brennan
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. -- G. Gordon Liddy
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody. -- Elie Wiesel
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. -- Jon Krakauer
If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it. -- Stephen Fry
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That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. -- David Hackworth
Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies. -- David A. Bednar
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
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts. -- James P. Hogan
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us. -- Linda Chavez
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. -- Walter Lippmann
We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way. -- Al Jarreau
Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics. -- Sloane Crosley
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
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
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death. -- J. M. Coetzee
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. -- Armstrong Williams
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. -- Bob Beauprez
Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics. -- Ayelet Waldman
I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars. -- Antonio Banderas
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere. -- Marjane Satrapi
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A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics. -- Criss Jami
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt. -- Leah Wilson
When you allow enemies to live and grow within your territory, you have positioned yourself to be killed when you never thought such can be your portion. -- Bamigboye Olurotimi
Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men. -- Gustave Flaubert
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. -- Robert F. Kennedy
Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date your PASTOR to know he can be your MENTOR before you give him your ears! Test the Spirits...and don't be a religious fanatic! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. -- Bertrand Russell
Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . . -- Edward Gibbon
Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality. -- Linus Torvalds
I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics. -- Daniel Ellsberg
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. -- H. L. Mencken
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct. -- Voltaire
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing. -- Bertolt Brecht
Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public. -- Alain de Botton
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. -- William J. Brennan
Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs. -- A. M. Rosenthal
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease. -- Calvin Trillin
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. -- Cassius Jackson Keyser
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner. -- Chico Xavier
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. -- Anne Royall
Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful. -- Ludwig von Mises
We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power. -- Dick Cheney
The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it. -- Cesar Chavez
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. -- Hosea Ballou
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics. -- Alan Dean Foster
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. -- Robert M. Hutchins
I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know. -- Jane Goodall
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution. -- Edmund Wilson
The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims. -- Nicholas Kristof
They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open. -- Ilona Andrews
Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems. -- Ken Kesey
The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
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
Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love! -- Dervla Murphy
The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life. -- James P. Hogan
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism? -- Rob Brezsny
I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics. -- Adam Gopnik
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death. -- Isabel Allende
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt. -- Christopher Hitchens
Literature encourages tolerance-bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities. -- Northrop Frye
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. -- William Wilberforce
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. -- Eric Hoffer
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike. -- Voltaire
John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table. -- Mike Huckabee
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs. -- Alexandre Dumas
America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians. -- Frank Zappa
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas Kristof
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it's the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera. -- Weegee
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen. -- Thaddeus Stevens

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