Moralist Quote by Will Durant Download Open image “A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Moralist
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos have no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
