Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic. — Mona Van Duyn Copy Share Image
“Evolution of apes to human begins with one person disposing of their flag in a museum.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Observational comedy is a bit of dirty phrase to most comedy fanatics, but I think it depends on what the observations are,… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them.… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said,… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so...… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but… — Moshe Arens Copy Share Image
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.” — Carol Berg Copy Share Image
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I have a special closet in my home just for my shoes. — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image