Moralist Quotes - Page 4

• The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

  Ravi Zacharias

  Teacher, Jesus, Men

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• Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Fighting, Giving

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Silent, Hollowness

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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, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Law, Feelings

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.71, Routledge

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• A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Scotland, Doe, Sturdy

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Ostig in Sky'

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• It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Civilization, Mind, Example

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Littles, Sometimes

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.368

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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 not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.

  John Adams

  Important, Regulation, Philosopher

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.117

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• Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish the fact that everyone else is going to hell.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Thinking, Heaven

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

  Louis Kronenberger

  Sick, Age, Ethics

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• The public only knows one side of [Mark Mark Twain] - the amusing part. Little does it suspect that he was a man of strong convictions upon political and social questions and a moralist of no mean order.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Strong, Mean, Men

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.184, 谷月社

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• Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.

  Eric Metaxas

  Mistake, Sacrifice, Zealous

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• The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, Grace, Desperate

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014

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• [Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly.

  Catherine Camus

  Football, Theatre, Morality

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• 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 nervous system. But that's not an issue discussed publicly. The issue is, Are they human? If you are an absolutist moralist, you say, "These cells are human, and therefore they deserve some kind of special moral treatment."

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Issues, Suffering

  Source: inters.org

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• I am a moralist. I worry.

  Toni Morrison

  Worry

  Source: wordmag.com

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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 to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Keys, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• [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 look without righteous horror.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Rights, Europe

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• Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

  William Warburton

  Respect, Passion, Mind

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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 preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Examination, Evening

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.242, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Errors, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.205, Tyché

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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 shocked austere moralists.

  Havelock Ellis

  Romantic, Sex, Exercise

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.34, Elsevier

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• I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

  H. L. Mencken

  Depressing, Artist, Careers

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