Moralize Quotes

#1. Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Albert Camus

#2. While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

Jonathan Haidt

#3. Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Jacques Barzun

#4. I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

Tallulah Bankhead

#5. You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.

Stephen King

#6. What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.

Karl R. Popper

#7. The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.

Jack London

#8. If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Jonah Goldberg

#9. My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

Mason Cooley

#10. We moralize among ruins.

Benjamin Disraeli

#11. Don't moralize at me! I have no love
For images, old gods, prophetic words.
I want to talk to Utnapishtim!
Tell me how.

Herbert Mason

#12. Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

Edmund Spenser

#13. The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

John Carroll

#14. Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

Susan Sontag

#15. Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. However ignorant a person may be, he or she can always moralize. And it is the propensity to moralize that takes up most of the space for public discussion in contemporary democracy.

Kenneth Minogue

#17. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals ... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own.

Walt Whitman

#18. ...the more we do for a child the less he will do for himself. If we give him watered-down material, many explanations, much questioning, if we over-moralize, depend on the work book to work the mind, what thinking is left for the child to do?

Karen Andreola

#19. We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Esther Perel

#20. But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.
Because they have no memory ... because they are not human.

Herman Melville

#21. In June we picked the clover,
And sea-shells in July:
There was no silence at the door,
No word from the sky.

A hand came out of August
And flicked his life away:
We had not time to bargain, mope,
Moralize, or pray.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#22. Our responsibility has never been to moralize the unconverted; it's to convert the immoral. Our responsibility is redemptive, not political. We do not have a moral agenda; we have a redemptive agenda. We can't reform the kingdom of darkness that Satan rules.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#23. The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

William Sloane Coffin

#24. When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

Ravi Zacharias

#25. One lone tear streaked over the rose of her cheek and dropped to her collar, staining the cotton dark. Helen

Kelly Robson

#26. Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

Tom Black

#27. In a way it's like too serene or whatever - too empty. I feel that familiar feeling of being a dark smudge on this otherwise pristine white canvas. There's just no way to blend in out here.

Nic Sheff

#28. The sweetest flower that blows,
I give you as we part.
For you it is a Rose,
For me it is my heart.

Frederick Peterson

#29. Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

Larry Moss

#30. A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.

John Ortberg

#31. Remember the Law of Power: You only have the power to change yourself. You can't change another person. You must see yourself as the problem, not the other person. To see another person as the problem to be fixed is to give that person power over you and your well-being.

Henry Cloud

#32. The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer