Moralizing Quotes

#1. [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Emmett Tyrrell

#2. I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Jane Austen

#3. To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

H.L. Mencken

#4. In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

Heather Paxson

#5. Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Harold Bloom

#6. But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

Karl Marx

#7. The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

Laozi

#9. Trellis wants his salutary book to be read by all. He realizes that purely a moralizing tract would not reach the public. Therefore he is putting plenty of smut into his book.

Flann O'Brien

#10. The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

Lawrence Reed

#11. I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

Malcolm McDowell

#12. I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Horace Walpole

#13. Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#14. He felt a killing hate for the stupid, ordinary, disapproving people who kept him from doing what he wanted to do. "Someday I am going to have things just like I want," he said to himself. "And if any moralizing son of a bitch gives me any static, they will fish him out of the river.

William S. Burroughs

#15. Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

George Papandreou

#16. Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

Don Herold

#17. Don't use "below-the-belt" tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeling, analyzing, preaching, moralizing, ordering, warning, interrogating, ridiculing, and lecturing. Don't put the other person down.

Harriet Lerner

#18. When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

John Ralston Saul

#20. Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

David Limbaugh

#21. Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Louisa May Alcott

#22. I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hermann Hesse

#23. We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Henry A. Kissinger

#24. I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.

Murray Bookchin

#25. Because of God, even the imperious ballbreakers, moralizing windbags, and meddling assholes may know love.

Joshua Ferris

#26. Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

David Harsanyi

#27. Let's shift from moralizing about and lamenting divorce to understanding that a successful marriage, no matter the length, is one that contributes to knowing ourselves better and evolving into more loving and compassionate people.

Deb Purdy

#28. First date, it's always fun to go somewhere or do something, like go see a band ... not make it too formal.

Behati Prinsloo

#29. I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

Michael Phelps

#30. Like a tourist, I watched the range of human possibility on display, trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people I saw, looking for some opening through which I could reenter.

Barack Obama

#31. When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

Lee Strobel

#32. I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

Rod Stewart

#33. But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

William Wordsworth

#34. With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes.

Peter Heather

#35. While you're hating your life just because you can't get what you
want, someone is praying to have a life like yours.

Thabang Gideon Magaola

#36. I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Taylor Swift

#37. One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

Thomas Jefferson

#38. She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#39. A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.

Toni Sorenson