Quotes About Fanatics

#1. 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

#2. In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

Elie Wiesel

#3. There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

Bill O'Reilly

#4. Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Linus Torvalds

#5. I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

Ben Affleck

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. We are half mechanical [physical] and half mysterious [spiritual]; to live in either domain and ignore the other is to be fools or fanatics ... We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical realm what God WORK IN in the mysterious realm.

Oswald Chambers

#9. That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

David Hackworth

#10. Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail.

Russell Kirk

#11. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

Aleister Crowley

#12. Fanatics don't wanna see anything from another standpoints.

Toba Beta

#13. My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

Hannah More

#14. 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

#15. A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.

Eric Hoffer

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

#19. If you haven't got your health you haven't got anything' but it's true. I used to think that physical fitness fanatics were a pain. I used to claim that there was more to life than feeling fit: like booze and smokes.

Allen Carr

#20. For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.

David Horowitz

#21. 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

#22. The charcoals of burned out religious philosophies are perceived by devout fanatics as pearls, which the heathen swine cannot appreciate.

Dimitris Mita

#23. 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

#24. France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.

Francois Hollande

#25. 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

#26. Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

A. M. Rosenthal

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Fanatics clouded by self-justification.

Toba Beta

#30. If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.

Michael Morpurgo

#31. Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ... maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert!

Gary Patton

#32. If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

Stephen Fry

#33. will you please explain how you can cry for a dead dog yet belong to a society of fanatics that urges death on human beings who happen to be Jews? Explain to me the logic of it.

Bernard Malamud

#34. Weltschmerz, basically, is the depression we feel when bamboozlers, fanatics, manipulators, trolls, bigots, demagogues, fear-mongers, liars and prigs threaten to take over the world, and there's nothing, we think, we can do about it.

Em L. Smith

#35. Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality ... through faith.

Terry Goodkind

#36. 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

#37. As my career has gone on, I guess I've become more well known. I'm playing to fuller halls in general, which is a nice feeling. When you're doing that, you're going to have a certain number of people who are not just the hardcore classical fanatics, and this makes me very happy.

Joshua Bell

#38. In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god, who gave us voices but does not wish us to sing, who gave us free will, rai, but prefers us not to be free.

Salman Rushdie

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

Cathryn Louis

#42. Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

Nikki Giovanni

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#46. 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

#47. Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.

G. Gordon Liddy

#48. Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count - there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#49. Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

H.P. Lovecraft

#50. Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

Anne Royall

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#55. Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#56. Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#57. I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

Yvon Chouinard

#58. Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.

Ernest Renan

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. This administration has forbidden us to describe our enemies properly and clearly: they are Radical Islamists. They are not alone, and are allied with countries and groups who, though not religious fanatics, share their hatred of the West, particularly the United States and Israel.

Michael T. Flynn

#62. Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

Jane Bowles

#63. Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

#64. Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob."
"What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?

Janny Wurts

#65. Call my cynical...but I've come to believe that most people who follow a total wack job aren't always true believers. They just like to follow. They like the perks. Makes them feel strong. Kind of weakens your faith in fruitcake fanatics.

Jonathan Maberry

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep calm, they said on television. Everything is under control.

Margaret Atwood

#69. When fanatics say, "Obey our religious laws even if you're not a believer," the immediate response must be to break whatever religious laws they are talking about.

David Silverman

#70. A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

Criss Jami

#71. Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Calvin Trillin

#72. Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE!"
"As I said, fanatics."
"But he set himself on fire!"
"Centuries of useless, obsessive waiting. Makes a human-"
"HE SET HIMSELF ON FIRE!
"Maybe he was cold.

Joss Whedon

#73. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time. Keep

Margaret Atwood

#74. There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

Annie Dillard

#75. Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.

Carol Berg

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

#79. You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily

Candace Allan

#80. 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

#81. When we talk about global crisis, or a crisis of humanity, we cannot blame a few politicians, a few fanatics, or a few troublemakers. The whole of humanity has a responsibility because it is our business, human business. I call this a sense of universal responsibility. That is a crucial point.

Dalai Lama

#82. You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

Ellen Willis

#83. We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

Mick Ralphs

#84. Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior?

Tara Kelly

#85. You got the list?" Lewis asked.
"What the hell is the deal with the temperature?"
"Razel is not allowed to sweat," Maximo answered. "If she does,
fanatics will appear from nowhere like mischievous sprites and bottle
each drop and then sell it on eBay for millions.

Elizabeth Morgan

#86. 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

#87. The people who want regeneration to be permanent are fanatics for the happy ending, dissatisfied with themselves and with anyone else, unrealistic men and women, anti-Christs, who were entertained by the miracles but learned nothing from Calvary.

John O'Hara

#88. When you're being celebrated and flying high, don't allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is.

T.F. Hodge

#89. For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Robert Musil

#90. Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left - sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.

G.K. Chesterton

#91. There may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an uncertain something.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#92. Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Yann Martel

#93. 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

#94. 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.

John C. Calhoun

#95. Scripture is like a gun. In tolerant hands, safe. In the hands of fanatics, deadly.

Anthony North

#96. Assaults by fanatics on our safety... does not justify assaults by the government on our freedom!

Andrew P. Napolitano

#97. Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

John Flanagan

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

Voltaire