Sam Harris - St Augustine - Samuel Butler - Horace - Cicero - Somerset Maugham - Oscar Wilde - Epictetus - John Ciardi - Thomas Paine - Ralph Waldo Emerson - William Shakespeare - Lost Horizon 1937 - Barry Goldwater -
Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. Sam Harris, The End of Faith
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings? Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. St Augustine
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. Samuel Butler
There is moderation in everything. Horace, Satires
Never go to excess but let moderation be your guide. Cicero
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. Somerset W Maugham
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. Epictetus
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. John Ciardi
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
Moderation in all things, especially moderation. Ralph Waldo Emerson et al
Be moderate, be moderate.
Why tell you me of moderation?
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,
And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it: how can I moderate it? William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida IV iv 1
Our general belief was in moderation. We preach the virtue of avoiding excesses of every kind. Lost Horizon 1937 ***** starring Ronald Colman & Jane Wyatt & H B Warner & Sam Jaffe & John Howard & Edward Everett Horton & Thomas Mitchell & Margo & Isabel Jewell & David Clyde & David Torrence et al, director Frank Capra, Chang
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! Barry Goldwater