The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject

Im a record shopping fanatic. I already got a nice stash here and I got a warehouse full of records in Detroit, its ridiculous. I lost a lot of records too. Having them in that storage paper, records was getting damp and to go back periodically and check on them is kind of hard.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence.