Extremes Quotes · Page 15

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

— Julius Caesar

I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.

— Sebastien Foucan

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

— Ezra Pound

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

— James Patterson

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

— Alexander Pope

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

— Garry Kasparov

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

— Edmund Burke

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

— Yael Naim

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing…

— Lysander Spooner

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme…

— C. S. Lewis

I always tend to remember the funny moments. When I lost my shoe (even though it was funny) there was something motivating…

— Laura Bell Bundy

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or…

— Beatrice Webb

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate…

— John Stuart Mill

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to…

— Martin Schulz

He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush…

— Rick Riordan

There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that…

— Charlie Munger

Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to…

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the Christian fundamentalists' goals seems to be to rebuild the Temple, which means destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which presumably means…

— Noam Chomsky

People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views.…

— Carly Fiorina

Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders.…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most…

— Jean Racine

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

— Peter Ustinov

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

— Oliver Sacks

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

— Mark Manson

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

— John Shirley

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

— James Dobson

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

— Marco Pierre White

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

— Panda Bear

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

— Bertrand Russell

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

— Margaret Walker

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

— Thomas Kyd

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

— Michael Savage

“The wildest thing in life is your own mind and the extremes it can take you.”

— Gillian Duce

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

— Baron de Montesquieu