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fanatics
«The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Problems,
Wisdom
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certain, doubts, fanatics, fools, full, make full, problem, themselves, whole, wiser
«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| About:
Ignorance
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agnostic, agnostics, burned, burned at the stake, burning at the stake, decencies, decency, explorer, explorers, fanatics, menace, menaced, menaces, menacing, observed, pretensions, skeptics, stake, staked, suffered, The Menace, The Skeptic
«After all, it [the Internet] was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.»
Author: Denise Caruso
| About:
Internet,
Politicians
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designed, fanatics, huff, huffing, huffs, nuclear, nuclear war, puffed, puffing, puffs, puny, religious war, The Internet, withstand
«My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.»
«Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction»
Author: Oscar Ostlund
| About:
Fanaticism
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fanatics, funnel, funneled, in common, marked, narrow, tornado, tornadoes
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
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abroad, a hundred thousand, common cause, fanatics, hundred thousand, in common, madman, sharing, tangible, Thousand and, thousand million, tremble, victories
«Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
fanatics, gestures, mankind, picturesque, reasons
«The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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composed, composes, Cynics, fanatics, government, humane, limit, moral, No limit, oppression, tolerant, top, worst
«Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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accordingly, bodily, conducts, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, delicate, fanatics, peaks, queer, sexual love, The Conduct of Life, the union, undoubtedly