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• Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Bed, Doe, Helping

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1410, Penguin UK

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• If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Unjust, Injustice, Wells

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• If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Gun, Morality

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• Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Gun

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• You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Animal, People

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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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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• For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

  Hugo Chavez

  Iraq, Catholic, United States

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• To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Crooks, Detectives

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• It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

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• I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Lying, Years, Practice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

  Joseph Farah

  Government, Law, Morality

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• It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.

  Robert Lowell

  Powerful, Book, Years

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• Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

  Richard Levins

  Suffering, Scholarship, Indifferent

  Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press

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• The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Greatness, Action, Moral

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.86

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• An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Loyalty, Attitude, Men

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, World, Ends

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.68

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• The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Character, Men, Expression

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• Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  Murray Rothbard

  Eggs, Golden, Rich

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• it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

  Jane Jacobs

  Fighting, People, Succeed

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• To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, People, Temptation

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Any surplus is immoral.

  Jenny Holzer

  Surplus

  David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?

  Gloria Allred

  Done, Prostitution, Paid

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• it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

  Christina Stead

  Money, Work, Unlucky

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

  Alex Tabarrok

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

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• My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

  Lynda Obst

  Movie, New York, Stupid

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