#moralist

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#moralist #out #pleasure #pour #sages

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

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #idealist #into #make #me

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

#generic #like #moral #moralistic #spectrum

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5). ↗

— Lauro Martines

#context #historians #history #memory #moralists

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. ↗

— Will Durant

#cannot #moralist #statesman

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

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. ↗

— Clarence Day

#dislike #many #moralists #reality #too

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