Never depend on zealots for clarity.

I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

— Charles Cumming

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

— Anonymous

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

— Moliere

Cynicism has its own zealots.

— Mason Cooley

Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become…

— Bill Moyers

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

— David Addington

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

— Patricia Briggs

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…

— Russell Kirk

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

— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human…

— Quentin Crisp

Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages…

— Paul Driessen

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world…

— Jonathan Stroud

“Throughout history, more has been lost to over-eager zealots than to mediocre slackers. A slacker leaves well enough alone. A zealot, a true patriot…

— Patrick E. McLean

“You cannot defeat injustice with the further injustice but you can render yourself into an unjust zealot in the process of trying.”

— C.A.A. Savastano

“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social…

— Michael Salter