“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
Bertrand Russell
“Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil”
Mark Twain
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
Christopher Hampton
“A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist”
Will Durant
“Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions”
“Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.”
Clarence Day
“The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the peo”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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