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Quotes About Fanatics

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
Like pornographers fretting under the burden of their wish dreams, these obscene buffoons suddenly found it unnecessary to assuage their fever among the pages of forbidden books or to pay for relief in some bordello, because a government of lonely fanatics swept into power and gradually lent official sanction to the dirtiest, saddest aspects of human nature, the lack of imagination which leads the ill to put their most libidinous nightmares into practice.
~ Peter Ustinov
Johnson said: "John Kennedy's death commands what his life conveyed—that America must move forward. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation's bloodstream.
~ Jon Meacham
The majority of revolutionists are the enemies of discipline and fatigue mostly.  There are natures too, to whose sense of justice the price exacted looms up monstrously enormous, odious, oppressive, worrying, humiliating, extortionate, intolerable.  Those are the fanatics.  The remaining portion of social rebels is accounted for by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the companion of poets, reformers, charlatans, prophets, and incendiaries
~ Joseph Conrad
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
After a few generations of warfare, though, the fanatics were either killed along with their backups, or were persuaded to modify their positions.  Most of the religious pockets had evolved into low-density lands devoted to agriculture, abundance, popular piety, and toleration. 
~ Walter Jon Williams
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
Survey after survey reflected a widespread conviction that extremism was the cause of Kennedy's death. It was to this sentiment that Johnson spoke in his peroration: "Let us put an end to the teaching and the preaching of hate and evil and violence. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law and those who pour venom into our nation's bloodstream.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
Zealots often carry the day.
~ Bobby Ray Inman
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
In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, aside from occasional attacks on their neighbours ('the Crusades'), were largely irrelevant to global trade and world politics
~ David Graeber
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
That a few fanatics had flown airplanes down into all of that seemed less surprising to him than that legions more hadn't yet done the same. Half the world or more was already setting itself against all the complexity in one way or another, going to off to live in caves or gated communities, dreaming of a world with one god, one book, a world small enough to feel that one wasn't lost in it.
~ Alex Shakar
We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.
~ Dick Cheney
Meanwhile, people relinquish their rights readily and eagerly in a quest for peace with religious fanatics that will never be realized.
~ David Silverman
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.
~ Elie Wiesel
All of us know that Messi cannot win alone, except for the fanatics or the mental patients who put in doubt Messi's talents, saying that he is a bottler, that he feels nothing for Argentina, that he doesn't sing the anthem, that he goes to the bathroom 50 times before a game. Those are things that are said to make an impression.
~ Mario Kempes
There is no such thing as purity. It's an idea in the heads of religious fanatics, the kind of people who kill because they are so good and righteous.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I hate self-righteousness. I hate purity. There is no such thing as purity. It's an idea in the heads of religious fanatics, the kind of people who kill because they are so good and righteous. I hate those people, I do. If any of them are listening right now, then fuck you. I hate you.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
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
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.
~ Elie Wiesel