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“Some people would not be practicing some things if they had not preached them.”

Character Hypocrisy Consistent Consistency Hypocrite Persona Preach Moralizing Practice What You Preach Preach What You Practice

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I have been followed by enough police robots to know by now how indestructible they are. You can blow them up or knock them down and they keep coming after you; dragging themselves by one good finger and spouting saccharine morality all the while.”

Morality Moralizing Loser Robots

Book:The Stainless Steel Rat

Source: The Stainless Steel Rat

“Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a Quaker, he believed that "the moral evil in war outweighs the moral good, although the latter is conspicuous." As a scientist, he thought there was too much moralizing about war and not enough knowledge. "For indignation is so easy and satisfying a mood that it is apt to prevent one from attending to any facts that oppose it. If the reader should object that I have abandoned ethics for the false doctrine that 'tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner' [to understand all is to forgive all], I can reply that it is only a temporary suspense of ethical judgment, made because 'beaucoup condamner c'est peu comprendre' [to condemn much is to understand little]." (p. 200)”

Ethics Indignation Moralizing Condemn Richardson

Book:The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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

Perspective Christian Right Moralizing

Book:The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Source: The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

“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.”

People Has Beens Problem Greek Patronizing Moralizing

Author:George Papandreou

“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.”

Reality Desire Disease Combination Goddess Revealing Venus Protestantism Categorization Moralizing

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.”

Hands Moral Morality Judgment Moral Judgment Moralizing

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

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

Moral Influence Quiet Folks Vocation Moralizing

Author:Lawrence Reed

“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.”

World Giving May Happiness Young Pleasure This World Morality Strain Disadvantages Young Ladies Moralizing

Author:Jane Austen

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

Knows Morality Sick Tired Imposing Moralizing

Author:David Harsanyi

“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. They may inadvertently do it, but it's because of the script, not the acting.”

Kind May Doe Character Actors Social Acting Scripts Statements Moralizing

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“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.”

Spiritual Language Common Class Illusion Conscious Common Sense Ruling Deceitful Moralizing

Author:Karl Marx

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

Economics Medieval Escaping Moralizing

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“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.”

People Love Giving Mind Evil Moral Giving Up Skins Fellows Distinction Sickness Good And Evil Relentless Pierce Moralizing

Author:Laozi

“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?”

Left Sides Careers Economy Produce Politician Vote Tired Dollars Greed Wealthy Lectures Borrowed Aisle Moralizing Career Politicians

Author:David Limbaugh

“The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion - you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people's children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.”

People Thinking Want Children Hard Government Would Be Names My Own Race Moral Fine Taxes Abortion Suggestions Immoral Monopoly Indignant Moralizing

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.”

Needs Problem Hands Company Cutting Growing Huge Majors Treats Crisis Population Jail Hook Pharmaceutical Narcotics Pharmaceutical Companies Moralizing

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.”

Humans Behavior Moralizing

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

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

Found Hours Thousand Miles Theme Juvenile Thousand Miles Moralizing

Author:Horace Walpole

“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.”

Thinking Found Music Moral Demian Moralizing

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.”

Influence Amount Persuasive Moralizing

Book:Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused”

“The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.”

Littles Use Problem Bits Deals Effort Christianity Teach Psychology Teaching Fairs Encouragement Pops Doctrine Faithful Massive Preaching Historic Moralizing

Author:D. A. Carson

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

Age Middle Taste Addresses Invites Middle Aged Moralist Moralizing

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing 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. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.”

Ifs Men Littles Use Earth Water Money Technology Fire Air Elements Tools Vote Profit Acquire Socialist Pornography Translations Incarnation Auschwitz Air And Water Moralizing

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.”

“In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence, genius, magnanimity, temperance, humanity, and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity. . . . How can we doubt that these people - so uncivilized, so barbaric, contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities - have been justly conquered?"”

“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.”

People Needs Kind Today Motivation Progress And Love Neighbor Cooperation Primitive Thyself Goodwill Invoke Puzzled Love Thy Neighbor Moralizing

Author:Murray Bookchin

“Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people”

People Two Different Found Moral Morality Different Things Different Peoples Moralizing

Author:Don Herold

“Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’”

Firsts Stills Hard Moments Stars Lines Space Objects Poet Bounds Plenty Mysticism Cosmic Contemplating Enlightening Dwelling Lebanese Moralizing

Author:Khalil

“We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.”

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

Would Be Politics Policy Administration Foreign Policy Presidency Amusing Carter Approximation Moralizing

Author:Emmett Tyrrell