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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. ↗


— Mercedes Lackey


#fantasy #prejudice #religion #truth #change

In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Jorge did a diabolical thing because he loved his truth so lewdly that he dared anything in order to destroy falsehood. ↗


— Umberto Eco


#fanaticism #prophets #religion #love

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; it has made all monstrous and widely pervading persecutions. In this degree it was not the people who cared who ever persecuted; the people who cared were not sufficiently numerous. It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack. There have come some persecutions out of the pain of a passionate certainty; but these produced, not bigotry, but fanaticism--a very different and a somewhat admirable thing. Bigotry in the main has always been the pervading omnipotence of those who do not care crushing out those who care in darkness and blood. ↗


— G.K. Chesterton


#fanaticism #ideas #moral-crusade #oppression #anger

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. ↗


— Esther Dyson


#became #even #fanatic #free #free market

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it. ↗


— Tony Parsons


#aloud #care #every #exactly #fanatical

People who change their religion should face the death penalty. ↗


— Zakir Naik


#bigotry #death-penalty #fanaticism #islam #religion

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time. ↗


— Francesca Annis


#am #anything #fanatic #got #i

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. ↗


— Leslie Charteris


#approaches #avoid #avoided #country #desire

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#fanatic #his #mind #subject #who

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement. ↗


— Hans Frank


#adolf #believes #bring #could #country






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