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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#ancient #battle #before #commander #era

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.


Will Durant


#cannot #moralist #statesman

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.


David Hackworth


#bay #beltway #care #fervor #game

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


#cannot #custom #insight #moralist #must

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.


Kathy Acker


#actually #any #each #easy #ever

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.


Emma Goldman


#consist #does #fact #her #moralist

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.


Alan Watts


#efforts #egos #feel #futile #his

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.


Frederick Soddy


#ignorance #jurist #man #moralist #scientific

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.


Kate Millett


#blight #condition #copes #except #find






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