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• The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Death Penalty, Murder, Intolerance

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• Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Reactionaries, Earnestness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

  Georges Bizet

  Inspiring, Writing, Mean

  Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G., October 1866.

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• Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Kind

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1999.

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• The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

  Amos Oz

  Integrity, Opposites, Compromise

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Imagination, Judgment

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• The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which, fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will against all others.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Lying, Greatness

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

  Robertson Davies

  Faith, Doubt, Atheism

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• Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

  Albert Ellis

  Religious, War, Fighting

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• There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

  William Benton Clulow

  Expression, Vehemence, Dangerous

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• No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Community, Phases

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.287, e-artnow

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• Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

  Francis Atterbury

  Causes, Drink, Invisible

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• I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ideas, Wish, Lovers

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.20

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• Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Giving, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

  Will Rogers

  Driven, Certain

  Will Rogers (1927). “There's not a bathing suit in Russia & other bare facts”

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• The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Commitment, Tragedy

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

  William Warburton

  Passion, Fire, Mind

  William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.135

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• That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

  Fisher Ames

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Unique, Long Ago

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936.

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• Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

  Lin Yutang

  Dream, Heart, Animal

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

  Libba Bray

  Doe, Drs, Lines

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.126, Hachette UK

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

  Adam Gopnik

  Flavor, Humans, Human Beings

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• [Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Madness, Said, Certainty

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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