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It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
— Eric Hoffer
Any form of art is a form of power.
— Ossie Davis
Legacy code often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Love is the litmus test of whether we are really disciples becoming like Jesus or merely religious moralists using Jesus for our own purposes.
— Jim Mindling
Hope is not a matter of age.
— Abbe Pierre
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
— Julien Benda
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
— Yasmina Reza
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
— Clarence Day Jr.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
— Bertrand Russell
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
— Stefan Molyneux
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
— Joyce Meyer
Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.
— Haruki Murakami
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
— Mason Cooley
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
— Camille Paglia
It was sprinting. The corpse was sprinting.
— Austin Quinn
Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.
— Indro Montanelli
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
BORN TO CRAWL, REBORN TO FLY
— Billy Graham
I always thought that if someone invested in your business, that meant he or she believed in it.
— Sandra Lerner
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
— Flannery O'Connor
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
— G.K. Chesterton
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.
— Stephen R. L. Clark
If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.
— Scott McNealy
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life
— Madeleine L'Engle
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
— Bertrand Russell