Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best…

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in…

— Mohammed Omar

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…

— Sydney Pollack

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

— Epicurus

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

— Athenaeus

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear…

— Claire McCaskill

I'm, in general, an advocate of moderate ticket prices.

— Jupp Heynckes

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

— Najib Razak

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

— Michel de Montaigne

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

— Barton Gellman

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in…

— Barney Frank

In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will,…

— Martin Van Creveld

“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”

— Jane Austen

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

— Antonin Scalia