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 belong to the fag-end of Victorian liberalism, and can look back to an age whose challenges were moderate in their tone, and the cloud on whose horizon was no bigger than a man’s hand.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
    —William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)

    “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)