General principles have to bend to accommodate the complexities of history, and justice is sometimes better served by compromise than by zealous intellectual consistency.
"We are very zealous of guarding academic freedom and intellectual freedom of expression of professors," Montás said.
Daphna, a fanatical Jewish ideologue, and Liam, an equally zealous secularist, are evenly matched in intellectual capacity and below-the-belt verbal jabs.
This may be another indictment of US intellectual property law more than of over zealous lawyers.
In what may have been intended as a comment on the cranky faddishness of Fabian intellectuals, Ivywood has fallen under the spell of a zealous Islamic prophet, and imposed a ban on alcohol.
Those who knew Dr. Hamilton said his zealous pursuit of the theory was characteristic of his unslakable intellectual curiosity and his interest in ideas that others might initially dismiss as half-baked.
"The enemies of Islam can deceive Muslim intellectuals and draw a thick veil over the eyes of the zealous by depicting Islam as defective in various aspects of doctrine, ritual observance, and morality," railed Hassan al-Banna, the founding father of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 1936.
But it also seems to me that the EFF may be getting a tad over zealous in its desire to defend our right to violate copyright and other intellectual property laws, and needs to take a step back and consider if the oppressed are now becoming the oppressor.
For the next 20 years the KGB became increasingly zealous in its pursuit of enemies, harassing, arresting, and sometimes exiling human rights advocates, Christian and Jewish activists, and intellectuals judged to be disloyal to the regime.
Most were zealous Zionists.
