The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
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
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Proctor is a moralist who says, “I’ve always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other… — Jane Austen 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
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“For instance, I had a friend I generally avoided. He rather bored me, and, besides, he was something of a moralist. But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
“You told me," he said, "that you love music because it isamoral. That's all right with me. But in that case you… — Hermann Hesse 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
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would… — Anonymous 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
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
The moralist of sheer work and obedience can be an ethic that, unwilling to face a despair of its ends, glorifies its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their… — Camille 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
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda 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
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I… — Henry Miller 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
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“Saying that Jesus was a moral teacher is like calling Winston Churchill a landscape painter; both statements are true (and Jesus was… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In fact I believe that one day a reappraiser will come and declare that, far from having been a frivolous firebird, I… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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