Moderates Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ends, Fortune

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• I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Romney in 2002: I’m 'Moderate,' 'Progressive,' and 'Not a Partisan Republican'". www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2011.

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• So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mean, Men, Desire

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 11 (1651)

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Perfect, Heaven

  "The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory". Book by Milton Friedman, June 1, 1970.

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• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.

  Plutarch

  Son, Smell, Aprons

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.203

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• There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

  Plato

  Desire, Type, Terrible

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• Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Class, Passionate

  'Essays in Criticism' First Series (1865) preface

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• Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Trouble, Reason

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

  Garrison Keillor

  Government, Hands, Republican

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• When people are given a moderate number of options (4 to 6) rather than a large number (20 to 30), they are more likely to make a choice, are more confident in their decisions, and are happier with what they choose.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Numbers, People, Choices

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• Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

  John Dryden

  Passion, Men, Views

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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• I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than substance. If you actually looked at what he said, not how he said it, he said very establishment things. He's a moderate, cautious, ameliorative guy. He tends to gravitate toward Beltway conventional wisdom.

  Paul Krugman

  Guy, Style, Substance

  "Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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• All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

  Mohammed Omar

  Two, Middle Path, Excess

  "Omar: 'Our plan is the destruction of America'". BBC World Service Interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2001.

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• A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Ch. I., 1688.

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• I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

  George Eliot

  Men, Average, Careers

  George Eliot (1883). “The Essays of George Eliot”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

  Mike Lee

  Conservative, Misguided, Candidates

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• Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Feet, Shooting, Ifs

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• The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Egypt, Track, Liberty

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• Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

  Geert Wilders

  Islam, Contradiction

  "'Moderate Islam Is a Contradiction'". Interview with Gerald Traufetter, www.spiegel.de. March 31, 2008.

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• I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.

  Robert Spencer

  Successful, Islam, Exponents

  "Honesty is the best policy, Bob". Jihad Watch (www.jihadwatch.org), July 19, 2007.

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• To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

  Charles Tomlinson

  Failure, Men, Aspect

  Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”

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• The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Fashion, Years, Lasts

  Obituary Jewish Chronicle (p. 33), October 11, 2013.

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