Quotes About Moderation

No violent extreme endures.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Since the time I resigned, I sometimes wonder whether creating 8chan was a good thing. I sometimes wonder about the things that I said in the past while I was being its admin. Sometimes I think I should have been harder on violent threats. I think maybe I should have worked much harder to improve the moderation systems.

Both multiplayer games and online forums have this property of virtual anonymity. Other people can't really see you; they don't really know who you are. And so the sort of social moderating mechanisms in real life, and your desire not to offend people around you, don't really adjust.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

The cardinal rules of good parenting—moderation, empathy, and temperamental accommodation with one's child—are simple and are not likely to be improved upon by the latest scientific findings.

the beauty of the word sometimes, how sometimes evens us out, keeps us in the comfortable middle rather than dangling on one end of the spectrum or the other, hanging on for dear life. It helps us escape from the tyranny of black-or-white thinking.

First and foremost, Austen was sensible. She didn't feed her romantic imagination to excess.

Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.

Dont desire much,lest you be greedy.

moderate alcohol consumption is linked to a long list of health benefits. We'll leave it to others to decide if those health benefits come from the alcohol itself or the fact that moderate drinkers tend to do lots of things moderately, and are more likely to have the education and socioeconomic status linked to good health.

If less was more, she had a great deal.