Moralist Quotes
70 quotes by 56 authors
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
— Lord Byron
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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
— Clarence Day
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
— Bertrand Russell
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party…
— Leon Trotsky
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I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
— Frederick Soddy
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To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is…
— John Burroughs
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners.…
— Quentin Crisp
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function…
— Walter Lippmann
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the…
— Georges Cuvier
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There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a…
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul…
— Bertrand Russell
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
— Madeleine Albright
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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil
— Mark Twain
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Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.
— Indro Montanelli
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I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear,…
— Christopher Hampton
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Moralists have no place in an art gallery.
— Han Suyin
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
— Yasmina Reza
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