Moralists Quotes

40 Moralists quotes by 33 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous. — John Berger

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