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• He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

  Jack London

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.572, Delphi Classics

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• You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Hate, Thinking, Morality

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.56, Penguin

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• Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

  Michael Crichton

  Technology, Choices, Alive

  Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson (2013). “A Case of Need: A Novel”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Honesty, People, Quality

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• There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Challenges, Done

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Use, Moral

  "Why We Can't Wait".

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• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  Imran Khan

  Children, War, Wife

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Law, Advice, Conscience

  "Words of Wisdom". Book by Mick Farren, p. 122, 2004.

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• Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

  Penn Jillette

  Asking

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

  Kurt Huber

  Law, Justice, Cowardice

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• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Brother, Sister In Law, Pigs

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

  John Galsworthy

  Beauty, People, Doubt

  In Chancery (1920) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Smart

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.51, Seven Stories Press

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• We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

  Epictetus

  Lying, Philosophical, Honor

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

  Albert Camus

  Taxation, Citizens, Indirect

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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• That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Generosity, Moral

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.105, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of being immoral.

  Margaret Hodge

  Accusing, Illegal

  Oral Evidence before the Public Accounts Committee, publications.parliament.uk. November 12, 2012.

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• We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. No more inhumanity.

  Rocky Anderson

  Religious, War, Lying

  Rocky Anderson's speech against the war in Iraq and Bush administration policies at a rally in Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah, archive.sltrib.com. August 30, 2006.

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• As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

  John Berger

  Government, People, Way

  "We must speak out". www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.

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• Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Practice, Sublime

  "Jefferson: Political Writings".

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• A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

  Milan Kundera

  Doe, Ethics, Morality

  New York Review of Books, July 19, 1984.

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• Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving Up, Earth, Morality

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.297, Penguin

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• It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Running, Integrity, Joy

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• Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Long, Soul

  Small is Beautiful (1973) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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