Robertson Davies
“Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.”
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Frantz Fanon
“Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.”
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Alexander Pope
“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”
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Edward Gibbon
“Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Denis Diderot
“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Bishop Hall
“Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
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Samuel Johnson
“The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.”
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Otto Schuwdrmer
“Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.”
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Matthew 23:24
“Ye blind guides, which stain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”
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William Cowper
“Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind."
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Louis Kronenberger
"In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice."
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Winston Churchill
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
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Aldous Huxley
“A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.”
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Reinhold Niebuhr
“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.”
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George Santayana
“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”
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Finley Peter Dunne
“A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter.”
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Luke 6:41
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye”?
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Oscar Ostlund
“Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction.”
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Joseph Smith
“I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others' faults but never accept as justifiable their own.”
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Storm Jameson
"Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises."
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Thomas Jefferson
"In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal."
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