Top 17 Moralising Quotes

#1. I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

A.S. Byatt

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#2. What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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#3. Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full of people to protect them from violence.

David Icke

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#4. He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

Cyril Connolly

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#5. Our path through life is strewn with many such sad memories: and were we to brood upon them always we could not find the heart to go on bravely with our work among the living ... therefore, I will not linger on the past. I will not let any gloomy moralising intrude ...

James Joyce

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#6. Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Vincent Van Gogh

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#7. Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralising as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god ... It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lewis H. Lapham

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#8. An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

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#9. It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

James Taylor

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#10. Tastee-Freeze was a sort of frozen custard. It gave all the pleasure that ice cream could give, without the stiffness and bitter coldness of ice cream.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#11. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

A.W. Tozer

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#12. Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Ka Chinery

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#13. I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make ... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say 'yes' more sparingly.

Bill Murray

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#14. My honey knows she's the worst dancer in the world, and Dex is like a fucking rock god.

Kristen Callihan

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#15. Mr. da Silva had a relevant quotation for everything that happened to him and in this way evaded real life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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#16. when in the face of writer's block, find another way to counter attack".

Shaheer Henderson

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#17. I promised in my head to leave you be. And when I saw you ... I was supposed to be man enough to turn you away. Fuck, I'm not a horny teenager. It's just you." He finally did stand. "You break me. You break everything I think I stand for.

Debra Anastasia

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