Moralist Quotes

70 quotes by 56 authors

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. — Lord Byron
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. — Clarence Day
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
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
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
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
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright
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
Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too. — Indro Montanelli
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
Moralists have no place in an art gallery. — Han Suyin
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza

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