In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is dif...
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
A moralist will be unsuccessful in trying to displace his love of the world by reviewing the ills of the world. Misplaced affections need to be replaced by the far greater power of the affection of the Gospel.
