# Quote — Matthew Stover, Traitor: Star Wars Legends

> This is the most valuable lesson one can teach a fanatic: that fanaticism is self-defeating.

- Author: [Matthew Stover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover.md)
- Book: [Traitor: Star Wars Legends](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/traitor-star-wars-legends.md)
- Page: 291
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Traitor_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/traitor-star-wars-legends/this-is-the

## More from this book

> You can kill me, but you can't make me obey.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/traitor-star-wars-legends/you-can-kill.md)

> "I guess heroes feel like they've accomplished something." "And you haven't? Several thousand slaves might disagree."

p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/traitor-star-wars-legends/i-guess-heroes.md)

> The feeling he'd had, that he was about to get himself killed, swelled into an overwhelming premonition of doom. Ganner's knees went weak, and a very large part of him wanted to bolt down the corridor and get away-but though he hadn't been much of a hero, the one virtue he'd never had to fake was courage.

p. 215 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/traitor-star-wars-legends/the-feeling-hed.md)