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If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism
Thomas Jefferson
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Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction
Oscar Ostlund
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There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
Frank Robinson
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A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew
the facts of the matter.
Unknown
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A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew
the facts of the matter.
Unknown
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than
surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are
called heroes.
Unknown
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than
surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are
called heroes.
Unknown
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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
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As any action or posture long continued will distort and
disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and
contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Rambler (#173)
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as
none at all, but not quite.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Rambler (#173)
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have
forgotten your aim.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Rambler (#173)
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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
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