Extremism Quotes

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.
Jennifer Capriati

Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.
Wilhelm Reich

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery...brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
Eudora Welty

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

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.

A black hole an extremely dense concentration of matter equal in mass to millions or billions of suns.
Walter Sullivan

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.
Charles Gow

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
Joichi Ito

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

No violent extreme endures.

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.







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