Moderate Approach Quotes

Moderation shifts when extremes do.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

There is moderation in everything.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Most unfortunately, none among us arise as reformers save that they depart from moderation into extremism, and the call cannot succeed with extremism. The Wahhabis undertook reform, and their sect would be good were it not for their extremism and excess. What need is there for their call that the tomb of the Prophet be destroyed? Or their assertion that all other Muslims are infidels? Or that they must be extirpated?

Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.

I'm not really Type A, but A minus.

It is never well to take drastic action, if the result can be achieved with equal efficiency with less drastic action..

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

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.

Now, again, what the center ground has got to do is to respond to people's genuine concerns and fears.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

We are done with demagogues. We need a person at the head of this government who is safe and sane.

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.