Immoral Quotes

• A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

  Immanuel Kant

  Taken, Demand, Life Is

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• Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Community, Hatred, Brotherhood

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• What is more immoral than war?

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Anti War

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• How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

  Dennis Prager

  Media, Against Violence, Males

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Illegal Things, Illegal, Fattening

  "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.

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• Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Thinking, Morality

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• About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Feel Good, Afternoon

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

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• It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

  Penn Jillette

  Bullying, Gun, Thinking

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Funny, Food, Illegal Things

  Quoted in Readers Digest, Dec. 1933

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• Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Morality, Economics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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• What is moral is what you feel good after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Reading Literature

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, People, Liberty

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

  Thomas Hardy

  Integrity, Ethics, Morality

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

  Robert McNamara

  Winning, Tokyo, Vietnam War

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.

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• Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• [General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

  Robert McNamara

  Children, Winning, Men

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.

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• You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

  Roman Polanski

  War, People, Upset

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

  Camille Paglia

  Cat, Animal, Self

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.89, Yale University Press

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• Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

  Ellen Key

  Love, Marriage, Moral

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morality, Moral

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