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“Those who don't understand the passion and are jealous of people who do are the ones who become moralists and preachers.”

Passion Preachers Moralists

Author:Nitya Prakash

“It is always the moralists who do the most harm.”

Morals Moralists

Book:Homo Faber

Source: Homo Faber

“With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.”

Politicians Self Righteousness Phonies Moralists

Author:Brian Spellman

“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5).”

History Memory The Past Censure Context Historians Propagandists Moralists

Book:Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

Source: Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence