“ Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 552
“ In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 536
“ If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
- 551
“ 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- Copy
- 505
“ There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. ”
- Milton R. Sapirstein- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. ”
- Frank Robinson- Copy
- 102
“ We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim. ”
- Chuck Jones- Copy
- 3K
“ A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.2K
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