Quotes with exhort

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• The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

  ― Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

  ― Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  Source: Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder

  ― Barbara Jordan
  American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• hypocritical
• moralists
• elucidate
• sanctions
• secondary
• ourselves

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