Moderated Quotes
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Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.
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More Moderated Quotes
I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.
tony abbott— Panel discussion "Religion, Sex and Politics" on abc.com.au, March 19, 2009.
The idea of politics as a conservation in which the collision of opinions is moderated and accommodated, in which what is sought is not truth but peace, has been almost entirely lost, and supplanted by a legalist paradigm in which all political claims and conflicts are modelled in the jargon of rights.
john n. gray— 'Oakeshott as a Liberal' (p.80)
An intelligent Russian once remarked to me,'Every country has its own Constitution.Ours is absolutism moderated byassassination.'
— Political Sketches of the State of Europe1814-1867
