Fanaticism Quotes

“Mental health”

“The fanatic is perpetually incomplete and insecure.”

“He claims to have reasons. And yet, don’t all fanatics?”

“If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.”

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

“The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.”

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

“It is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.”

“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.”

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

“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

“Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.”

“I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.”

“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.”

“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”

“When a life is at stake and it's your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you just become fanatic. Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”

“The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness and holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold on to.”

“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.”