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“Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.”

“Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.”

World Persons Violence Fit Certainty Zealot

Book:The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”

Madness Mental Health Missions Quitting Confusing Fanatics Zealot

Book:The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel

Source: The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel

“We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.”

Needs Mind Business Benefits Green Campaigns Minorities Behaviour Researchers Zealot

Author:Chris Powell

“Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798

“Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.”

Fool Anxiety Zealot

Author:David Addington

“It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany of hate and turn out thousands of fanatical Islamic zealots. It indirectly provides the funding and its' citizens provide most of the fighters for Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organization. It supports, financially and by other means, the Palestinian terrorists and other Muslim anti-Western groups throughout the world.”

“Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.”

Thinking Mean Ends Seems Left Process Wings Prepared Dues Consideration Justify Get Away Fairness Left Wing Predecessors Due Process Zealot Gulags

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.”

People Hate Individual Darkness Democracy Tolerance Terrorist Tyrants Sunlight Liberating Bigots America Freedom Zealot American Freedom Sept 11 Tolerance And Respect

Author:Ted Olson

“If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too.”

Ifs Kind May Mets Connecting Smokers Obese Zealot

Author:James H. Fowler

“For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.”

World Life Government Form Life Is Fighting Mankind Fool Concern Charity Disagree Contests Forms Of Government Hope And Faith Zealot

Book:The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes

Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes

“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!”

Ifs Love Feels Ends Desire Religion Order Passion Destruction Aim Noble Monsters Height Torture Folly Madmen Asceticism Zealot

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.”

States Fear Republican Violent Rebellion Dread Zealot

Author:Charles Inglis

“In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds - that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.”

Kind Two Different Country Government Political Religious Atheism Economic Dangerous Conviction Positive Atheism Our Country Persuasion Evangelists Zealot

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“I'm not good with bullies and zealots.”

Bully Zealot

Author:Charles Cumming

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