Fanatical Quotes

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. — Eric Hoffer
Itâ€™s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish… — Markus Zusak
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic… — Boris Pasternak
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd… — David Benioff
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the… — Douglas Adams
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for… — Ludwig von Mises
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the… — Stephen Fry
Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never… — Audrey Niffenegger
The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are… — Albert Einstein
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents,… — Paul Tillich
National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain… — Carl Sagan
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features… — Albert Einstein
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale.… — Paul Johnson
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical… — Leslie Charteris
We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to… — Wayne Coyne
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. — Isaac Mayer Wise
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and… — Daniel Quinn
If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but utterly… — Unknown Author

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