Moderate

Moderate

In politics and religion, a moderate is an individual who is not extreme, partisan or radical. In recent years, "political moderates" has gained traction as a buzzword.

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Famous quotes containing the word moderate:

    I have this hope in God that he will hear our prayers, given the firm faith we place in him: and that he will accomplish this wish of ours, seeing as it is a moderate one.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    the moderate Aristotelian city
    Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry
    And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience,
    And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)