History Quote by Patrick E. McLean

“Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don’t get in their way without expecting to be hurt.”

— Patricia Briggs

“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

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune.…

— Napoleon Hill

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world…

— Jonathan Stroud

“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

“Slackers were not well dressed, because there was no reason to dress smartly. Their uniform was old jeans, Converse trainers and warm, practical lumberjack…

— J.M.R. Higgs

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious,…

— John F. Kennedy

“All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders…

— Noel Coward

“The attitude of uncompromising heroism is attractive, and appeals especially to the dramatic instinct. But the purpose of the serious revolutionary is not personal…

— Bertrand Russell

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of…

— Philip K. Dick

“Those who rise to greatness, have endured enormous struggles in their lifetime. It is through their challenges that they forge their will to survive…

— Timothy Pina

“There always are and always will be some strange personalities in our country, whatever the conditions, who though peaceful and not at all lazy…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky