Quotes with extreme

  • Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
  • As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
  • This Clash of Civilizations has led to a Clash of Religions, leading in turn to war, terror and extreme poverty.
  • It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
  • The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Malcolm X It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Alice Walker 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • William Butler Yeats All empty souls tend to extreme opinions.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Pierre Corneille All evils are equal when they are extreme.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Alexander Trocchi All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
    Alexander Trocchi
    Scottish writer (1925 - 1984)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ben Goldacre Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Robert Southey Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Seneca As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Plato Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Bertrand Russell Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Hazlitt 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
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Chris Patten 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
     
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  • Italo Calvino I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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