I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza Copy Share Image
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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