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• Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.

  Waris Dirie

  Religious, Strong, Believe

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• In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Country, Religious, Musketeers

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• Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.478, Head of Zeus

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• Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wells

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.188, Schocken

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• Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Consistency, Faithful

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.80, Discovery House

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• Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Intelligent

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.416, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that they believe, first, that they possess Christ's power to bestow salvation, second, that forcing us to memorize and regurgitate a few of their favorite Bible phrases and attend their church is that salvation, and third, that any discomfort, frustration, anger or disagreement we express in the face of their moronic barrages is due not to their astounding effrontery but to our sinfulness?

  David James Duncan

  Real, Believe, Frustration

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.227, Dial Press

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• Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

  Isabel Allende

  Fascination, Heroism, Occupation

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• It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

  E. M. Forster

  Eye, Entering, Victim

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.603, Delphi Classics

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• Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

  John Flanagan

  Ems, Halt, Said

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• I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Practice, Trying

  "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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• The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Atheist, Opposites

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fall, Compassion, Rocks

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.204, Penguin

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• He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Destiny, Choices

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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• [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

  Crush, Religious, Patriotic

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Religious, War, Blood

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, People, Journalism

  "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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• There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

  Annie Dillard

  Work, Skills, Vocabulary

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.150, Canongate Books

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• I'm a horror movie fanatic.

  Gina Philips

  Horror

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Horse, Hobbies, Faults

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

  Linus Torvalds

  Religious, Hippie, Morality

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• There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Art, Philosophy, Band

  Alan Dean Foster (2002). “Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of the Founding of the Commonwealth”, p.85, Del Rey

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• Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Needs, Boring, Burn Out

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Holiness, Causes

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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