"The worst of madmen is a saint run…" — Alexander Pope

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• Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. — John Berger
• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of… — John C. Calhoun
• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston Churchill
• It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything. — Evita Peron
• The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. — Oscar Wilde
• Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope
• Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age… — William Shakespeare
• If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants. — Albert Einstein
• Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics… — Albert Einstein
• No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived… — Helen Keller

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