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Fanatics Quotes
Where passion turns extreme: quotes exploring fanatics and fanaticism.
These quotes examine fanatics as people whose zeal outweighs their reasoning, whether in religion, ideology, or the pursuit of an absolute idea. See related reflections on the Always quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recent history shows that leaders in both parties are fanatics on the topic of immigration, and they cannot be trusted to effectively enforce any significant border measure.
- Exchanges
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excuse after excuse for why this non-investment investment lost so much of its value so fast. One was that hackers attacked some of the exchanges for Bitcoins and crippled it. Really? A hacker can wreck an entire market?
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
- Nature
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Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.
- Intervention
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- Nov 07, 2020
British intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan swelled the grievances home-grown fanatics fed off, while al Qaeda morphed and re-grouped in lawless sanctuaries from Somalia to Yemen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.
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- Nov 07, 2020