#fanatic

[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. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#death #fanaticism #radicalism #war #death

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

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#fitness #good #i #i think #overall

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic. ↗

— Steve McManaman

#football #i #rather #than

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#does #facts #fanatic #knew #lord

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

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fanatical #get #people #readers #rock

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#age #fanatic #fed up #finding #fitness

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#down #fanatic #him #same #see