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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
The wise Jewish Israeli must work with the moderate Muslim and the Christian leader of the free world against the crazy Muslims.
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old.
I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.
Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.
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.
I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.
Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.
The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
Islam is, to be sure, a big tent, and the one and a half billion Muslims in the world run the gamut from mystical, moderate, pacific Sufis to Salafists.
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don't care. Just don't lie to me.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
I would expect the fundamentalists to agree with me that democracy is incompatible with fundamentalist Islam. Moderate Muslims have to decide which side of the argument they are on.
The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.
The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.
Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
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.
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.
The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
My drummer was my best friend. It weighs on me that we put all that time in - I played with him for 15 years, beginning with 'Laguardia' - and we had moderate success.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.
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.
Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.
Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
There is clearly a conflict within British Islam between a moderate majority that accepts the norms of Western democracy and a growing minority that does not.
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.
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.
The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much
Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.
The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.
Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.
You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.
