Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Fanaticism.
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.
Jean Genet
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
No violent extreme endures.
Thomas Carlyle
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.
Mao Zedong
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
William Butler Yeats
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
E. M. Cioran
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
William Cowper
Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
Robin G. Collingwood
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
Denis Diderot
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
George Orwell
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer,
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
Bishop Hall
The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
Heywood Broun
Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic.
Otto Schuwdrmer
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
Source Unknown
Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.
Ronald Segal
