Fanaticism Quote by Wendell Phillips

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical…

— Bertrand Russell

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

— Adam Gopnik

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital…

— Edward Gibbon

“Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.”

— Cathryn Louis

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

— Dean Koontz

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

— Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

— William Cowper

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where…

— John C. Calhoun

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

— Anonymous

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations…

— Lord Acton

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

— George Santayana