'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Extremes are dangerous.
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine,' an enduring signal for when the world is failing to meet its obligations in tackling bigotry. It has never been clearer to me just how widely understood that truism is.
I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.