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• Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Selfishness, Conflict

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Silence, Suffering

  Ravi Zacharias (2008). “End of Reason”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Noble, Birth

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• American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented on screen as they are now. The biggest problem isn’t genuinely independent cinema, where lower budgets mean more opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. The problem is the six major studios that dominate the box office, the entertainment chatter and the popular imagination. Their refusal to hire more female directors is immoral, maybe illegal, and has helped create and sustain a representational ghetto for women.

  Manohla Dargis

  Mean, Independent, Ghetto

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• When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Rome, Accepting

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Self

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• Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Party, Men

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• One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.

  Roland Barthes

  Ethical Questions, Our World, Desire

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• We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Mind, Video

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

  Jon Evans

  Pain, Animal, Men

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• Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Uplifting, Media, Television

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• I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

  Joe Lhota

  Rights, People, Gone

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• I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Law, Nicaragua

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• A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.

  Randy Wayne White

  Party, Ideas, Suffering

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• What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Negative, Doe, Morality

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.

  Ron Paul

  War, Mean, America

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• The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.

  Henry Ford

  Government, Law, People

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.6, 谷月社

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• One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Triumph, Prejudice

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• Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

  Dean Acheson

  Mistake, Vietnam

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004". Book by Alistair Cooke, 2004.

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• The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Sacrifice, Self, Sensible

  1982 Something like an Autobiography.

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• Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lambs, Morality, Judgment

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.238, tredition

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• I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.475, Univ of California Press

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• People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness.

  Doris Lessing

  Art, Sex, Love Is

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Husband, Home, Divorce

  "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.

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• The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Believe, Giving

  "The Moral Judgment of the Child". Book by Jean Piaget. Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism, 1932.

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