Certainty Quote by Jonathan Stroud

“Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human…

— Quentin Crisp

Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become…

— Bill Moyers

“Zealots see only faith or heresy, politicians see plots and conspiracies everywhere, lovers see devotion or betrayal in every action, and none of them…

— Roderick Graham

“Nothing is more fun than to watch zealots go off the rails. They try to present themselves as rational, independent-minded persons like yourselves, balanced…

— Neil Steinberg

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

— David Addington

“There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking…

— John Connolly

“But if there is a sense of reality, and no one will doubt that it has its justification for existing, then there must also…

— Robert Musil

The unspeakable visions of the individual.

— Jack Kerouac

“I am drawn to the notion of wildness—how it shapes our fears and dreams, and how those fears and dreams can, in turn, reshape…

— Monte Reel

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable…

— Susan Sontag

“Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal power of…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny,…

— George Washington