Moralistic Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to… — Joseph Sobran
The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal.… — Rupert Everett
All moralistic judgments, whether positive or negative, are tragic expressions of unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.… — Jerry Saltz
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I… — Richard Ramirez
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of… — Hans Morgenthau
I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society — Richard Ramirez
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also… — Bayard Rustin
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any… — Kathy Acker
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts… — Alberto Manguel
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an… — Junot Diaz
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. — Iris Murdoch
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly… — David Nicholls
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how… — David Hackworth
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one… — Kate Millett

Who Wrote These Moralistic Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 16 Moralistic Quotes as follows: