That pleasure, as ordinarily understood by plain people, is a treacherous, dangerous, and ruinous guide to conduct, moralists of every school declare.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
In life, there is the highly organized, delicately adjusted, perfectly balanced human body responding to the will of an invisible power; and it is admitted by all schools of philosophers, moralists, and scientists that this invisible power-whatever it may be-is the real man.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
There is a tendency on the part of those who specialize in the making of ideals to repudiate the eating and the tool-making sides of man; which accounts for the quarrel between the Marxians and the moralists.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair