| "Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme." »Roy Hattersley |
| "Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil." »Mary Wollstonecraft |
| "It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness." »Jean Cocteau |
| "What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S." »William Seward Burroughs |
| "The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change." »Marquis de Sade |
| "We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "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." »Marquis de Sade |
| "It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve" »Galileo Galilei |
| "Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being." »John Updike |
| "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health." »Gloria Steinem |
| "Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past." »Dean Koontz |
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