Moralists Quotes
40 Moralists quotes by 33 unique authors
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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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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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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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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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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and…
— Aldous Huxley
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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and…
— Jane Austen
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The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not…
— John Hersey
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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
— Honore de Balzac
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
— Oscar Wilde
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In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.
— John Berger
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