Fanatics Quotes · Page 4

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

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

— Paul Scheer

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

— Noam Chomsky

I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into…

— Josh Helman

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full…

— Bertrand Russell

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't…

— Jane Goodall

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won…

— Ameen Rihani

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

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,…

— Bob Beauprez

The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative…

— Massad Ayoob

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,…

— Lloyd Billingsley

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and…

— George Orwell

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already…

— Eric Hoffer

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I…

— James Horner

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

— Bob Hawke

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

— Calvin Trillin

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through…

— Albert Einstein

“Fundamentalism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs, which have always caused hatred, bloodshed…

— Mouloud Benzadi

I don't want fans anymore, because the definition of a fan is a fanatic. The people who buy my product and ride…

— Prodigy

Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But…

— Bob Lutz

Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle…

— Shimon Peres

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

— Cesar Chavez

The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits.

— Ann Coulter

Observational comedy is a bit of dirty phrase to most comedy fanatics, but I think it depends on what the observations are,…

— Jamie Demetriou

I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd,…

— Arjen Anthony Lucassen

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant,…

— Frank Zappa

A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it…

— Gordon R. Dickson

“The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total…

— Rami Ollaik

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their…

— Frederick Lenz

Decent, hard-working Labour MPs have been targeted by Corbyn fanatics in an attempt to purge the party of anyone who doesn't support…

— Anna Soubry

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

— Milton Sapirstein

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

— George Orwell

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the…

— Mercedes Lackey

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

— Rob Urbinati

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

— Poul Anderson

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after…

— Edmund Wilson