Extremes Quotes

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Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. — Eric Hoffer
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. — Charles Caleb Colton
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. — Roy Hattersley
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. — Pearl S. Buck
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. — Joseph Hall
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which… — Erwin Rommel
There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was… — Francis Darwin
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be… — Joseph Brodsky
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there. — Quentin Crisp
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but… — Thomas Chalmers
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.… — Benjamin Tucker
If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed… — Marilyn Sokol
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of… — Charles Dudley Warner
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid… — M. Scott Peck
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead… — Benjamin Tucker
Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance… — Jacques Diouf
While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising -… — Edward Davey

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