Immoral Quotes - Page 5

• Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

  Albert Camus

  Religious, Practice, People

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit from the illnesses of others. I say medical care is too important to be left to the failed central plans of the political class. And as for profiting from providing medical care, we can never be reminded enough that in a free society, a profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Class, People, Political

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• I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.

  Tao Lin

  Character, Thinking, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Ruins, Lancashire

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

  Johnny Carson

  Hurt, Honesty, Thinking

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

  James Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Hero, Men, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Taken, Broken, Chinese

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• The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Struggle, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

  "The End of My War". Sunday Times, 1995.

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• Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Writing, Chocolate, Vision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

  Mark Danner

  Mind, Body, Nervous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.

  Peter Joseph

  Philosophical, Law, Behaviour

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• It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Catholic, Phrases

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• If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

  Jeff Wall

  Excuse You, Giving, Might

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• Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Unnecessary, Currency, Should

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• Recently, there's been a trend in America that I find very disturbing... rewarding immoral and illegal behavior...For example, we now give free needles to junkies, which seems to me to be only a step away from giving condoms to rapists.

  Bill Maher

  America, Giving, Example

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• The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Essence, Becoming, Use

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

  Robert Kennedy

  Evil

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• It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

  Ron Clarke

  Sick, Waiting, Fields

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• A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed and into extinction. The decline of biological diversity is real and severe. The alarming loss of soil fertility, forest cover, and coral reef viability and the release of fossilized CO2 that nature put away 300 million years ago in its march toward greater diversity - all these "losses" and many others are the result of one life-form annihilating other life-forms in its immoral confusion of "dominion" with "domination."

  Leonard Sweet

  Real, Loss, Years

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• The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

  Florence King

  Ignorance, Littles, Way

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.158, Macmillan

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• And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Firsts, First Time

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.

  Stendhal

  Lying, Men, Feet

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.367, Tyché

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• Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Rebuilding, Morality

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