Immorality Quotes - Page 2

• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Law, Evil

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• Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

  Elbert Hubbard

  Morality

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

  David McCallum

  Creative, Energy, Conformity

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• Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Faith Religion, Germany

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• Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

  Ted Cruz

  Abuse, No Hope, Courses

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Internet

  "Transcript: National Press Club Q&A with President Gordon B. Hinckley". Interview with Jack Cushman, www.deseretnews.com. March 8, 2000.

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• The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Artist, Literature, Morality

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Funny, Humor, World

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Ignorance, Men

  "The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773".

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• Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Spring, Monsters

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Atheism, Age

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1618, Delphi Classics

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• There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Reality, Demand

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• Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Country, Lynching, Civilization

  "Reconstruction and Africa" (1919)

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• Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

  Judith Martin

  Pregnancy, Able, Morality

  Judith Martin (1984). “Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children”, Viking Pr

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• Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Teenager, Morality

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• If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?

  John Galt

  Giving, Desire, Moral

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• Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.

  Hutton Gibson

  Evil, Tolerance, World

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• There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external, i.e., political control] falls and likewise, when the religious barometer falls, the political barometer, that is political control and tyranny, rises. That is the law of humanity, a law of history. If civilized man falls into disbelief and immorality, the way is prepared for some gigantic and colossal tyrant, universal and immense.

  Juan Donoso Cortes

  Religious, Fall, Men

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• It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political station. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of immorality , he abuses his civic responsibilty. He sacrifices not only his own interest but that of his neighbor, and he betrays the interest of his country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Religious, Sacrifice

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• It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Prejudice, Development

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

  Nicole Richie

  Life Is, Fattening, Illegal

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• The central base of world political power is right here in America, and it is our corrupt political establishment that is the greatest power behind the efforts at radical globalization and the disenfranchisement of working people. Their financial resources are virtually unlimited, their political resources are unlimited, their media resources are unmatched, and most importantly, the depths of their immorality is absolutely unlimited. They will allow radical Islamic terrorists to enter our country by the thousands.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Islamic, America

  "TRANSCRIPT: Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations". www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Focus

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2015

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• Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Intellectual, Morality

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• To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Peaceful, Violence

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