Moderates Quotes

• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Lets cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Challenges, Administration

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• Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

  John Tillotson

  Hatred, Mind, Ease

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• Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moderation, All Things, Including

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• I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

  Abraham Cowley

  Life, Nature, Strong

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152

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• Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Political, Vices

  Thomas Paine (1998). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.383, OUP Oxford

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• Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

  Junius

  Honesty, Men, Views

  Junius (1829). “The posthumous works of Junius: To which is prefixed, an inquiry respecting the author: also, a Sketch of the life of John Horne Tooke”, p.397

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• The more aggressive our ideologies become, the more aggressive our discourse whether it's in the United States, from Washington D.C., or whether it's from Tehran, or from some underground Al-Qaeda cell. The more aggressive that discourse is, the more people of moderate persuasion have to organize and speak a voice of compassion. That means to feel with the other.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Compassion, Voice

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Views, Voice

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• Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is carefully developed, his tone is moderate, but his conclusions are radical and profound. No political theorist or moral philosopher, no public official or political activist, can afford to ignore his arguments.

  Michael Walzer

  Profound, People, Political

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• When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Christian, Fun, Hate

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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

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

  George McGovern

  Justice, Fighter, Peace And Justice

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• One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.

  David Miliband

  Country, Islamic, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

  John Forbes Nash

  Age, Schizophrenia

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• I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, World, Merit

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isobel Grundy (1997). “Selected letters”, Penguin Group USA

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• I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

  Elon Musk

  Independent, Republican, Democratic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

  Sam Harris

  Want, Lunacy

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• I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

  Mel Gibson

  Exercise, Thinking, Trying

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• As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Order, America, Giving

  "Exclusive Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Pt. 2". The Final Call Interview, www.finalcall.com. January 27, 2004.

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• There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

  Judith Martin

  Love, Inspirational, Witty

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessed, Littles, Poverty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.57, e-artnow

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• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire, Tongue

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• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Important, Employment

  "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress". www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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