Moralistic Quotes
More Moralistic Quotes
Nietzsche … criticizes Schopenhauerian aesthetics for not freeing itself from Kant’s moralistic: ‘that is beautiful which gives us pleasure without interest’.
john carroll— p. 95 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.
ellen willis— "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag", New Politics (Summer 2005), Vol. X, No. 3
