Quotes of Fanatic - somelinesforyou

“ Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic. ”

- Otto Schuwdrmer

“ Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely. ”

- E. V. Verrall

“ I think everybody's nuts. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. ”

- William Cowper

“ In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. ”

- Louis Kronenberger

“ The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ There is no place in nature for extinction. ”

- Lucretius

“ It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. ”

- Shirley Chisholm

“ The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money… ”

- Sy Leon

“ Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises. ”

- Storm Jameson

“ I think it has a pernicious effect on society. Hollywood projects a leftist homosexual agenda, which goes along with radical feminism, and a misunderstanding of what Christianity teaches. ”

- Tom Snyder

“ The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it. ”

- George H. W. Bush

“ I'm a nut, but not just a nut. ”

- Bill Murray

“ We're great believers in Pahrump. ”

- John Ritter

“ It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! ”

- Nicholas Evans

“ Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ”

- Salman Rushdie
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