#fanatic

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#fanatic #given #lazy #name #often

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#creed #fanaticism #fashionable #multiplication #table

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ↗

— George Santayana

#consists #effort #fanaticism #forgotten #you

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. ↗

— Otto Schily

#active role #extremism #fanaticism #feeds #hate

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#accuse #bit #faith #fanaticism #fostering

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fanatic #irrationality #secularism #love

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#death #fanaticism #radicalism #war #death

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat? ↗

— Voltaire

#fanaticism #murder #religion #men

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan) Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism. ↗

— The Poet Archibald MacLeish

#fanatical-desire #wanton-lust #love