#fanatics

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#blues #fanatics #got #just #like

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#conflict #conflicts #cruelest #fanatics #into

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#fanatics #respect #respect

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#blindly #book #evidence #fanatics #follow

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts. ↗

— James P. Hogan

#certain #doubts #fanatics #fools #full

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

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#delusion #extremism #fanaticism #fanatics #guerrilla-decontextualism

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#action #animate #any #basic #basic human rights

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. ↗

— David Hackworth

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