Moderates Quotes - Page 17

• Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Mean, Hands, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists, the ones you see in the news killing women and children for the glory of the god of the Qur'an. Moderates are somewhere in between. A moderate Muslim is actually more dangerous than a fundamentalist, however, because he appears to be harmless, and you can never tell when he has taken that next step toward the top. Most suicide bombers began as moderates.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  "Son of Hamas". Book by Mosab Hassan Yousef and Ron Brackin, March 2010.

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• Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fog, Wind, Mind

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• In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

  Edward Gibbon

  Party, Fire, Fields

  Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury (2013). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

  Mark Steyn

  Republican, Schwarzenegger, Social

  Mark Steyn (2011). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.236, Regnery Publishing

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• To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Assessment, Soldier, Proud

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.3284, e-artnow

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• If we mix only a moderate minority share of turds with the raisins each year, probably no one will recognize what will ultimately become a very large collection of turds.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Minorities, Share

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• I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Republican, Democrat

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• Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout the world; the colder regions of the world will be more affected by the benefits, and the hotter regions by the costs.

  Nigel Lawson

  Cost, Benefits, World

  Nigel Lawson (2009). “AN Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming”, p.68, The Overlook Press

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• Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Past, Wings

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.

  Mara Liasson

  Squad, Trump, Establishment

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• People in the media often tend to assume it`s like Trump and [Ted] Cruz fighting over the same voters but when you look at the people who say they`re voting for Donald Trump he does as well with voters who describe themselves as moderate or liberal as he does with voters who themselves as very conservative. So, not all the Trump base would go to Cruz as a second choice.

  Chris Hayes

  Fighting, Media, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• So our own actions sometimes have undermined our safety, in our efforts to fight terrorism. The only way this can work is if we are aligned with liberals, with moderate Muslim forces. But if our war on terrorism is seen - as it is seen by many Muslims - as a war on Islam itself, it's very hard for us to have Muslim alliances, because America and the West have become so toxic.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  War, Fighting, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Kids, Rights

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mind, Study, Capacity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.80, DOSER Reads

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• In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, Intellectual, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “Utilitarianism”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

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• Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughing, Violence, Levity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

  Confucius

  Strong, Giving Up, Progress

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.

  Walter Scott

  Religious, Pain, Real

  Sir Walter Scott (1829). “The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists”, p.256

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• I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, “What’s the definition of a moderate Arab?” “I don’t know.” “A guy who ran out of ammunition.

  Nelson DeMille

  Guy, Definitions, Crosswords

  Nelson DeMille (2008). “Wild Fire: Number 4 in series”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.

  Dan Ariely

  Stress, People, Mind

  Dr. Dan Ariely (2010). “The Upside of Irrationality (Enhanced Edition): The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

  Carl Jung

  Views, Emotion, Calm

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

  Andrew Weil

  Believe, Emotional, Healthy

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• The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

  Russell Brand

  Needs, Action, Source

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Drinking, Thinking, Littles

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.223, Macmillan

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