The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists. — Stephen R. L. Clark Copy Share Image
“The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell 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
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
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing… — Paul Gruchow 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 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
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
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
One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon… — Edward Thomson 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
“When a job is undertaken from necessity, or from a grim sense of disagreeable duty, the worker is self-consciously aware of the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human… — Foucault, Michel Copy Share Image
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sexuality. The moralist tends to see sex as dirty, or at least as a dangerous impulse that leads constantly to sin. The… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac 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
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
