Excess Quotes

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.

The excess of pleasure is pain

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.