“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
Bertrand Russell
“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.”
Francois Fenelon
“Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.”
Klemens Von Metternich
“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
“Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.”
Moliere
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero