Moralizing Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they… — Lewis H. Lapham
We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. — Henry A. Kissinger
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that… — Ravi Zacharias
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations… — Murray Bookchin
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibranâ€™s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlighteningâ€”itâ€™s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism… — Khalil
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually… — Harold Bloom
We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later… — Lionel Trilling
Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a… — George Papandreou
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease… — John Ralston Saul
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. — H. L. Mencken
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. — Horace Walpole
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have… — Hermann Hesse
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing. — Louisa May Alcott
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I… — Brennan Manning
It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without… — Pema Chodron
The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair… — D. A. Carson
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. — C.S. Lewis
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am. — David Harsanyi

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