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A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. -- Charles Inglis
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William Shakespeare
Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots -- Conrad Black
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims. -- Thomas Jefferson
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. -- Joseph Campbell
Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty. -- Samuel Johnson
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right. -- Alexander Pope
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. -- Douglas William Jerrold
I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this. -- Richard Davidson
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it. -- A.C. Grayling
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives. -- Charles Hodge
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes. -- Richard Hofstadter
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! -- Denis Diderot
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence. -- Richard Hofstadter
These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy. -- Ted Olson
I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates. -- Eliot Spitzer
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. -- Charles Dickens
If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle. -- Christopher Hitchens
Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations. -- Paul Driessen
To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example. -- Al-Kindi
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true. -- Sydney Thompson Dobell
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too. -- James H. Fowler

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