Richelle Mead Quotes

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

I'm quite moderate.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative. I say neither - I'm pragmatic.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

Any policy that is extreme we must avoid.

There are good people on both sides of almost every issue.

The best war is when you can hate both sides.

Extremes can be right on no side.

My style is not to challenge anything.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

I'm certainly not a hard liner, that's clear.

There is no win-win or lose-lose in a situation. Everything is a medium.

Nationalism is not that hard. It's not that hard to incite people against another, and it's also - and this is the harder thing: Democrats have, and the challenge we have all the time, is we believe in governing and governance and trying to find middle ground.

Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

My mom's side is very Orthodox, and my dad's side is the opposite, very liberal. I got a taste of both worlds, and I got to make up my own mind. I'm somewhere in the middle, which is a good place to be.

You have to accept that other people are not going to live their lives like you, and you have to find a way to achieve your goals while they are still existing and living their lives according to their choices.

It seems like the whole world is either with Israel or with Palestine. It seems like there is nobody who is actually in the middle, because the only loud people are the ones in the extreme.