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I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart. — William Butler Yeats
When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people. — Robert M. Pirsig
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. — Hosea Ballou
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will… — Hannah Arendt
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger… — Jean Genet
Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind. — Tony Blair
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's… — Lawrence Wright
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. — Bertrand Russell
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply… — Daniel Dennett
There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too. — Julian Baggini
No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity… — George Bernard Shaw
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then… — Thomas Jefferson
A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do. — Jim Kaat
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will… — Tariq Ali
Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many,… — Edwin Percy Whipple
There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting… — Frederick Lenz
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in… — James Russell Lowell
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. — Samuel Johnson
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have… — Thomas Paine
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately
Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able… — Edmund Burke
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of… — William Warburton
Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity. — Francis Atterbury

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