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I am a moralist. I worry.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
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.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
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.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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.
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.
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.