Ethics Quote by John Berger

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the…

— Louis Kronenberger

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through…

— Lauro Martines

“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed them to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent.…

— Aldous Huxley

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

— Mason Cooley

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

— Anonymous

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,…

— Joseph Campbell

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow…

— Albert Camus

“Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.”

— Marquess of Halifax