Lively and possibly cantankerous rhetorical criticism, research and musings about: Eric Hoffer, True Believers, Wingnuts, The Tea Party, President Obama, Rhetorical Theory, Fanatical Political movements, symbolic devils, Kenneth Burke, and identification by antithesis. Est. 2010.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Characteristic of Fanatics
“The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to reason or his moral sense. He fears compromise and cannot be persuaded to qualify the certitude and righteousness of his holy cause.” (p. 85). ~Eric Hoffer
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