Extremes Quotes - Page 10

• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

  Bono

  Ocean, Eye, Mean

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• I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or is written by already established authors. I don't by any means try to hide what I write, but the way people think in categories here is pretty extreme: it blots out discussing the actual work on its own terms. That's made me loath to talk about my own work in terms of genre, because once you get a label, it sticks and poof go a slew of potential readers and reviewers because eww, fantasy cooties.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Abuse, Culture, Tiny

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ignorance, Government, Greed

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Voters, Republican

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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• Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about taboo subjects. I was 8 years old in those days, and later, in politics and society, these extreme wright ideologies got stronger - the skinhead movement was started, a lot of ex-Nazis emigrated and financially supported these extreme right movements in Hungary.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Years, People, Stronger

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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• I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish. I am Jewish. So I can't hate Jewish people.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Mother, Hate, People

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, Museums

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?

  Jane Goodall

  Two, Sides, Passionate

  Fuente: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  War, Mean, Holocaust

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Marcada por una virulenta noción de dureza y masculinidad agresiva, la cultura de la violencia se ha convertido en algo habitual en una sociedad en la que el dolor, la humillación y el abuso se condensan en espectáculos digeribles que circulan sin cesar a través de los deportes extremos, la telerrealidad, los videojuegos, las publicaciones en YouTube y las formas proliferantes de los nuevos y viejos medios de comunicación.

  Henry Giroux

  Sports, Pain, Reality

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• This is an issue that the Prime Minister put on the COAG agenda. First of all, it is something that would only apply in an extreme case where the service by a terrorist of a sentence of imprisonment had in no way curbed their desire or their intention to commit terrorist offences in the community, so that this is a - would be a public safety measure. The second point I'd make to you is that this is not unknown to the law.

  George Brandis

  Law, Issues, Safety

  Fuente: www.abc.net.au

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• I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that we should spend our law enforcement time jailing or imprisoning marijuana users. But to solve that problem, you don't need to go to the other extreme of creating Big Tobacco 2.0.

  Kevin Sabet

  Marijuana, Men, Thinking

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is practicing in solitude. That's why they have contemplative orders.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Order, Solitude, Benefits

  Fuente: fpmt.org

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• Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

  Judith Butler

  People, Trying, Violence

  Source: ilga.org

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• I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.

  C.E. Morgan

  Thinking, Expression, Opposites

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark.

  Marine Le Pen

  Ideas, People, Identity

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• I think we - "we," meaning the media - have generally caused Americans to consume news in smaller, less contextualized bites. I think we have sugar-coated the news. I think we have provided news that is consumable, at the expense of news that is more important. I think we have created a world in which extreme views push out moderate views.

  Ali Velshi

  Thinking, Views, Media

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Soy una mujer con mi lado extremadamente vulnerable y mi equipaje, y a veces me siento extremadamente débil.

  Christina Aguilera

  Baggage, Sides, Vulnerable

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Believe, Islamic

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• My childhood was extreme.

  Tori Amos

  Infancia

  "Tori Amos: My family values". Interview with Jamie Tabberer, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Hands, Economic Models

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• I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Character, Thinking, Provocative

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• I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

  Danny Boyle

  Film, Customs, Havens

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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