A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza Copy Share Image
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can… — Walter Lippmann 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
The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has… — Ravi Zacharias 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
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits.… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“A moralist looks at Jesus in the desert and immediately jumps to, We need to pony up, try harder, and be faithful… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it… — Philip Guston 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
“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
The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and… — George Orwell 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
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
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
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
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists. — Stephen R. L. Clark Copy Share Image
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
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