#fanatic

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cling #faith #fanatics #go #let go

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#complete #fact #fanatic #hitchcock #i

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#claim #ends #fanaticism #god #our

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#gestures #listen #mankind #picturesque #rather

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#atrocious #devoted #effort #fanatical #only

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. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#fact #fanatics #great #great time #having

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#central #communist #communist party #cults #down

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#because #common #common sense #criminal #dogma

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fanatic #irrationality #secularism #love

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#feelings #humanity