Jim Crace

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.

English Writer

Jacques Barzun

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

American Educator

Michael Shellenberger

Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing about the need to change collective energy production.

American Author

Malcolm McDowell

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.

English Actor

Clemantine Wamariya

I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.

Justin Simien

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

American Director

Horace Walpole

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

English Author

Jonah Goldberg

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

American Journalist

A. B. Yehoshua

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

Israeli Novelist

Benjamin Disraeli

British Statesman

Use 'moralize' to show that you think an issue is not just important, but important in terms of right and wrong.

Moral Importance

'Moralize' can have a negative feel, suggesting that someone is self-righteous or overly judgmental.

Negative Connotation

When people moralize, they express their own beliefs about what is morally good or bad.

Subjective Viewpoint

'Moralize' implies giving advice based on one's own moral standards, which can sound patronizing.

Advisory Tone

Overusing 'moralize' can make speech or writing seem preachy or didactic.

Avoid Overuse

'Moralize' is often used in essays and op-eds where the author expresses their ethical viewpoint.

Non-fiction Bias

 And in believing that his intelligence allows him to transcend moral taboos, Raskolnikov cuts himself off from his own humanity. Yet although the book is deeply concerned with morality, "Crime and Punishment" never comes across as merely moralizing,

Why should you read...

 their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increase. In surveys, we've found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize