#fanatic

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. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#fanaticism #only #step

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#atrocious #devoted #effort #fanatical #only

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#back #cannot #coffee #fanatic #go

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques. ↗

— Otto Schily

#active role #extremism #fanaticism #feeds #hate

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#come #fanatic #great #hatred #heart

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. ↗

— Amos Oz

#any #anywhere #everyday #everyday people #fanaticism

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#college #comfortable #criminal #fanatic #had

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead ↗

— Henry Jenkins

#fans #age

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification