Extremes Quotes · Page 20

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

— Manmohan Singh

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

— Sydney Pollack

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the…

— Aristotle

Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy.

— Lee Byung-hun

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

— Klemens von Metternich

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar

— Garrison Wynn

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

— Freddie Mercury

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle…

— Charles Bukowski

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual…

— Sigmund Freud

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip…

— Winston Churchill

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the…

— Michael Steinhardt

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to…

— Joseph Hall

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad…

— Criss Jami

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one…

— Thomas Sankara

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which…

— Henry Giroux

Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my…

— Murray Bookchin

To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the…

— Gregory Bateson

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,…

— Charles Darwin

There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political…

— Paul Wellstone

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Part of the problem with extreme patriotism is that it makes the support of one's country and its policies unconditional. Moderate patriots,…

— Stephen Nathanson

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

— Eric Ries

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

— Thomas Paine

The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much.

— Alexander Pope Q

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a…

— Tom Robbins

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

— Daniel N. Robinson

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

— Walter Kaufmann

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

— Pierre Trudeau

Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.

— Ilona Andrews

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice…

— Samuel Butler

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

— Edward Gibbon

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

— Bear Grylls

Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.

— Michael Kors