Mohammed Omar Quotes

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Extremes are dangerous.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance.

The best position the government could assume would be that of moderation between opposite extremes of Ultra-Toryism and Radicalism

All extremes are dangerous.

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Too much is the same as not enough.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

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.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.