[F]anatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. … [T]he reactionary and the radical have more in common than either has with the liberal or the conservative.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
The True Believer (1951)

 
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