External Quote by Timothy Noah Download Open image “Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.” — Timothy Noah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare External Moderates More Pressure Respond Tend Than Types Who
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 Copy Share Image
A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market. — Peter Bofinger Copy Share Image
With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes,… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Violence in drama is an external contextualization of internal conflicts. — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“God helps them that help themselves.” When you begin to help yourself, which means to make the best of what is in yourself, you begin to attract to yourself more and more of those helpful things that may exist all about you. In other words, constructive forces attract constructive forces; positive forces attract positive forces. A growing mind attracts elements… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter. — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image