Extreme Quotes

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Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first… — Johannes Kepler
Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals. — Daniel Kahneman
And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more… — Jonathan Haidt
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in… — Demosthenes
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the… — Sharon Olds
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. — John Pilger
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. — Alberto Giacometti
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a… — Al Gore
Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the… — Noam Chomsky
The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten. — Hunter S. Thompson
The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music. — Hunter S. Thompson
I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where… — Janine Antoni
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which… — Robert Greene
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions. — Frans de Waal
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I… — Jean Paul Gaultier
Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of… — Valentino Garavani
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions… — Stephen Jay Gould
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media. — Tammy Bruce
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor, — Maurice Herzog
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. — Herbert Croly
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another",… — Unknown Author
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our… — Marshall McLuhan
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to… — Dietrich Mateschitz
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse — Chogyam Trungpa

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