“ A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ”
- Oscar Levant- Copy
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“ Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth — well, it's like brown — it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ”
- Wolfman Jack- Copy
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“ Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ”
- Florence King- Copy
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“ Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ”
- Florence E. King- Copy
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“ Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is. ”
- Malcolm Lowry- Copy
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“ Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically — for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist — but then what isn't? ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others… ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
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