Moralist Quotations

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.

The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

First and last, Drucker is a moralist of our business civilization.

Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions