Quotes About Zealots

#1. Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.

James Surowiecki

#2. There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

John Boorman

#3. Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.

John Stossel

#4. The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

Elizabeth Coleman

#6. Man-induced global warming was an hypothesis that had been repeatedly disproven. Anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming proponents weren't scientists, they were religious zealots.

John Ringo

#7. Suzanna had argued with zealots before - her brother had been born again at twenty-three, and given his life to Christ - she knew from experience there was no gainsaying the bigotry of faith.

Clive Barker

#8. Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

David Addington

#9. Hell hath no fury like a centuries-old organisation of zealots scorned.

Seanan McGuire

#10. In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

Robert H. Jackson

#11. Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.

Patricia Briggs

#12. Trust the zealots to start with God and end with shit.

Anonymous

#13. I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#14. Cynicism has its own zealots.

Mason Cooley

#15. The brutal aggression of these would-be soldiers and heroes, wrenched from hopelessness and unemployment and easily turned into unthinking zealots, chilled

Anton Gill

#16. Zealots are rarely ever weakened by disbelievers; in fact, they are encouraged by them.

Paul Midler

#17. The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition.

Nicholas Kristof

#18. Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you ... you are part of a much larger whole.

Denis Hayes

#19. 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

#20. Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

Jonathan Stroud

#21. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

#22. A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.

Orhan Pamuk

#23. I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.

Michael Crichton

#24. Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

Keith Olbermann

#25. Embrace Your Abomination!" - in regards to religious zealots constantly calling gays an abomination.

Rickey Russell

#26. Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Samuel Johnson

#27. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

Criss Jami

#28. 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

#29. FRACTURED FACTIONS
Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots

Kamil Ali

#30. [Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

David Hume

#31. I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

#32. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Margaret Thatcher

#33. We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.

Chris Powell

#34. Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.

Patricia Briggs

#35. The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it.

Carl Sagan

#36. They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

#37. Christ gave up his life for you so that you could have a genuine zeal to do good works. Paul calls upon Christians to be good works zealots or good works extremists - to be absolutely committed in every way to doing good for others.

Tim Challies

#38. I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

Charles Cumming

#39. All leaders who go to war in the name of God are either zealots or hypocrites.

Ian Mortimer

#40. Zealots often carry the day.

Bobby Ray Inman

#41. I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That's how I roll."
Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa

Jeff Shear

#42. Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason

Ilona Andrews

#43. 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

#44. One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

Joseph Addison

#45. I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

Sunil Gangopadhyay

#46. It's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.

John Irving

#47. You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Flannery O'Connor