Extreme Quotes
Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
Sherwood Boehlert
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
Hippocrates
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Reinhold Niebuhr
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
William Hazlitt
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
Albert Camus
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
Seneca
No violent extreme endures.
Thomas Carlyle
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
Emma Goldman
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
George V. Higgins
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
Chris Patten
