Extremes Quotes · Page 8

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

— Horace

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down…

— Alberto Giacometti

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

— Bill Nighy

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

— Ambrose Bierce

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

— Pierre Corneille

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education,…

— Helene D. Gayle

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered,…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop…

— Paul Wellstone

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or…

— Raymond Pettibon

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy…

— Harriet Martineau

Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended…

— Karen Abbott

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam.…

— Elie Wiesel

Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ...…

— Leo Strauss

The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate…

— Christopher Hitchens

The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now…

— George Will

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of…

— Phil Anselmo

I don't actually have cable. I watch TV, but only shows that I buy on DVD. As a result my TV rage…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this…

— Kenneth Arrow

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home…

— Ruth Wisse

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is…

— Criss Jami

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have…

— Suzanne Vega

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life…

— Ai Weiwei

I'm very aware of the extremes within me. The caring and the anger.

— Teddy Atlas

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

— Steven Rattner

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

— Anthony Burgess

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme…

— John Muir

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

— E. J. Gold

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

— Anonymous

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

— Evan Glodell

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

— Marcus Aurelius

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

— Frans de Waal

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

— Joseph J. Romm

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

— Linda Barnes

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility

— Richard Branson