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 don’t say ‘tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    “Our age is an age of moderate virtue
    And of moderate vice
    When men will not lay down the Cross
    Because they will never assume it.
    Yet nothing is impossible, nothing,
    To men of faith and conviction.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)