Fanatics Quotes · Page 3

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

— Flannery O'Connor

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

— Gertrude Atherton

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I grew up going to football games with my dad and we were just sports fanatics.

— Gretchen Whitmer

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

— Will Rogers

“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Im a popcorn fanatic. No matter how full I am, I can eat popcorn.

— Julianne Phillips

We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having…

— Al Jarreau

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

— Bill O'Reilly

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

— Jon Krakauer

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

— Hosea Ballou

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

— John Boyega

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory;…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but…

— Martin Niemoller

Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal,…

— Patrick F. McManus

I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the…

— Antoni Tapies

We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to…

— Josh McDowell

I'm Adam Richman. A food fanatic who's held nearly every job in the restaurant biz. Now I'm on a mouth-watering journey to…

— Adam Richman

“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only…

— G.K. Chesterton

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to…

— Russell Kirk

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me [on…

— Pauley Perrette

No segment of the population has lost more by the agendas of the liberal constituencies of the Democratic Party than the black…

— Thomas Sowell

“fanatics. Every teacher of work-righteousness is a trouble-maker.”

— Martin Luther

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

— William J. Clinton

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

— Bertrand Russell

“Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly…

— Gustave Flaubert

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know…

— Antonio Porchia

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to…

— Linda Chavez

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and…

— Eric Hoffer

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

— Yann Martel

I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was…

— John Fugelsang

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a…

— Voltaire

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I'm a Democrat, Joey was a Democrat. Johnny and Dee Dee were staunch, avid right wing conservative fanatics. Our political views were…

— Marky Ramone

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to…

— Charlie Munger

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

— Keith Olbermann