Top 179 Fanatics Quotes & Sayings

I grew up going to football games with my dad and we were just sports fanatics.

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

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.

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.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work.

I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

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

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

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.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

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

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Daily experience proves clearly to everybody but the most bigoted fanatics of socialism that governmental management is inefficient and wasteful.

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

We must all come together to condemn political violence, most of all the national news media, and refuse to promote the dehumanizing rhetoric of fanatics.

[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.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

I don't want fans anymore, because the definition of a fan is a fanatic. The people who buy my product and ride with me are my supporters, not fanatics.

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse.

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

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.