Top Zealotry Quotes
Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...
Christopher Hitchens
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ancestry, antisemitism, arabs, armageddon, arthur balfour, bedouin, bolshevism, britain, christianity, colonialism
During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour to the...
Christopher Hitchens
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bosnia, bosnian war, city councils, croats, david rieff, extremism, humour, intellectuals, islamic extremism, jews
Zealotry Definition
(n.) The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.