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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
-Aneurin Bevan
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There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
-Heywood Broun
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No violent extreme endures.
-Thomas Carlyle
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
-E. M. Cioran
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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
-Robin G. Collingwood
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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
-William Cowper
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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
-Quentin Crisp
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Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
-Angela Y. Davis
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
-Denis Diderot
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
-John Dryden
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
-John Dryden
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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
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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
-Frantz Fanon
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
-Robert Frost
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The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.
-Jean Genet
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
-Edward Gibbon
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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
-Emma Goldman
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Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
-Bishop Hall
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All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.
-Eric Hoffer
The True Believer, 1951
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
-Aldous Huxley
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
-Aldous Huxley
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Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
-Storm Jameson
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Books about Fanaticism
