To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold Copy Share Image
I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor?… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.” — Heather Paxson Copy Share Image
Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The history of cruelty inflicted in the name of morals has convinced me that the increase of identification might achieve what moralizing… — Arne Næss Copy Share Image
“You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“In most popular Christianity, “heaven” (and “fellowship with God” in the present) is the goal, and “sin” (bad behavior, deserving punishment) is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“I have been followed by enough police robots to know by now how indestructible they are. You can blow them up or… — Harry Harrison Copy Share Image
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,… — Khalil Copy Share Image
The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a Quaker, he believed that "the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“My unlucky star had destined me to be born when there was much talk about morality and, at the same time, more… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell 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
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor?… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image