Extreme Quotes

Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. (Baruch Spinoza)
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
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. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. View quote
William Butler Yeats
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. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
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. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. View quote
Antonio Porchia
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. (Jean Cocteau)
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Push your limit to the absolute extreme. View quote
Gordon Ramsay
I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. View quote
Cass Sunstein
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. View quote
Chris Cleave
I always go extreme ways. View quote
Niki Lauda
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Extreme law is often extreme injustice. View quote
Terence
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. (John Rawls)
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. View quote
Morrissey
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. View quote
Sam Houston
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. View quote
Clint Eastwood