68 Quotes About Extremes

Only those thoughts which go to extremes can face up to the all-powerful powerlessness of certain agreement.

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes.

Extremes,' said the Controller, 'meet. For the good reason that they were made to meet.

In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn't puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated. Fiction writers are particularly suspect because they write about human beings, and people are morally ambiguous. The aim of ideology is to eliminate ambiguity.

Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.---From “Hero and Leander, Sestiad III

...when like-minded people get together, they often end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk to one another.

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

Most of us, people live life in extreme. On one extreme some people think they live for eating, on the other some fasting to death.