Extremes Quotes

So over violent or over evil that every man with him was God or Devil.

John Dryden (1631-1700) English Poet, dramatist.

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.

Barry Goldwater (b.1909) American Republican Politician.

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 Kennedy (1925-1968) American Democratic Politician.

Extremes are dangerous. A middle estate is safest, as a middle temper pf the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most hopeful to bear the mariner to his heaven.

Swinnock.

all extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between these extremes.

Cecil.

The man who can be nothing but serious, or nothing but merry, is but half a man.

Leigh Hunt.

There is a mean in everything. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits, which, not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

Horace.

Extremes meet in almost everything: it is hard to tell whether the statesman at the top of the world, or the ploughman at the bottom, labors hardest.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations founded on their data.

Tancred.

That extremes beget extremes, is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

Colton.

The blast that blows loudest is soonest overblown.

Smollett.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

Chapman.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Lavater.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes. Rushing from credulity and weakness, to suspicion and distrust.

Bulwer.

The greatest flood has soonest ebb; the sorest tempest, the most sudden calm; the hottest love, the coldest end; and from the deepest desire often ensues the deadliest hate.

Socrates.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power wears itself out.

Herder.

Neither great poverty, nor great riches will hear reason.

Fielding.

Both in individuals, and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate what we have over praised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

Macaulay.

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.

St. Evremond.

No violent extremes endure; a sober moderation stands secure.

Aleyn.

Extremes are vicious and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

Bruyere.