Quotes about extremes and extremists

"No violent extreme endures."

Carlyle, Thomas on extremes and extremists   

"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."

Colton, Charles Caleb on extremes and extremists   

"This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there."

Crisp, Quentin on extremes and extremists   

"Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil."

Dryden, John on extremes and extremists   

"So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil."

Dryden, John on extremes and extremists   

"Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion."

Hall, Bishop on extremes and extremists
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"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."

Kennedy, Robert F. on extremes and extremists   

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

King Jr. Martin Luther on extremes and extremists
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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on extremes and extremists   

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on extremes and extremists
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"It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on extremes and extremists