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
The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. — Lord Byron 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
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block… — Quentin Crisp 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
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why?… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this… — André Pieyre de Mandiargues Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against… — Charles Lamb 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
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
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
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
“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
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
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda 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
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley 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
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
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
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
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
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
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