Best Moralist Quotes
70 Moralist quotes by 56 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
— Mason Cooley
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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
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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
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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
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A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
— Lord Byron
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
— Will Durant
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
— Marguerite Duras
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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
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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
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
— Bertrand Russell
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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
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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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