Haters are your most dedicated fans: ordinary fans can be disappointed in you or can get tired of you etc. but haters never. Bryanna Reid hate
— There are two types of fans. Catch me before I kill again, Type A. — What's type B? — Your bedroom's just a taxi ride away. Sherlock Season 2 Episode 3 Sherlock Holmes
I suppose it's hard for a fanatic to admit a mistake. Isn't that the whole point of being a fanatic? You're always right. Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 Lord Varys
The tragic joke of human history is that on any of the altars men erected, it was always man whom they immolated and the animal whom they enshrined. It was always the animal's attributes, not man's, that humanity worshipped: the idol of instinct and the idol of force—the mystics and the kings—the mystics, who longed for an irresponsible consciousness and ruled by means of the claim that their dark emotions were superior to reason, that knowledge came in blind, causeless fits, blindly to be followed, not doubted—and the kings, who ruled by means of claws and muscles, with conquest as their method and looting as their aim, with a club or a gun as sole sanction of their power. Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged John Galt history mystic
Fanaticism is nowhere. There's no tenderness or humanity in fanaticism. Joe Strummer responsiveness humaneness