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We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the… — Joseph Campbell
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not… — Camille
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and… — Marguerite Duras
The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad… — Ravi Zacharias
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to… — Albert Camus
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or… — Camille Paglia
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… — Charles Lamb
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological,… — Bertrand Russell
Rough Johnson, the great moralist. — Lord Byron
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and… — Samuel Johnson
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. — Hans Morgenthau
Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the… — Philip Guston
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level. — Theodore Roosevelt
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out… — Emma Goldman
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. — Will Durant
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which… — Havelock Ellis
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He… — Walter Lippmann
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always… — Alan Watts

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