Moderates are neither great dreamers, scientists, engineers, writers, poets, actors or politicians. Moderates are uncomfortable with talent or those who have the conviction of their beliefs. They avoid people who are passionate about ideas because that disturbs the bland and uniform world they seek. Moderates rarely achieve great things nor do they fail at trying to do great things. Moderates are uncomfortable with greatness.
Mediocrity is the fruit of the moderate's faith.
While excellence is not a moderate virtue rather it is suspect, subversive and immoderate. Moderates are the Germans who turned their heads when the Gestapo pushed the old Jewish women to the ground. Moderates are the ones who walked by as the SS ripped the food from the starving child in the Warsaw Ghetto. Moderates were those Jews who thought Hitler would never murder ALL the Jews and certainly never them. Moderates thought concentration camps were relocation centers.