Immoral Quotes - Page 17

• I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war. I'll never get him back.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, War, Son

  "Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan won't pay back taxes". www.cnn.com. February 22, 2012.

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• There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

  Helen DeWitt

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

  William Blum

  War, Men, Judging

  William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.55, Zed Books Ltd.

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• If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Justice, Doubt, Together

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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• The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sacrifice, Men, Atheism

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• I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morality, Claims, Immorality

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• The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Religion, May

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• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

  Mason Cooley

  Money, Perfect, Pleasure

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• The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

  Karl Kraus

  Broken, Triumph, Thieves

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• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

  Virginia Satir

  Blessing, Giving, Support

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• Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

  David Brooks

  Wisdom, People, Empathy

  FaceBook post by David Brooks from Sep 30, 2011

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• We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  People, Needs, Snap Judgment

  "Vanessa Hudgens Talks THE FROZEN GROUND, Meeting the Real Cindy Paulson, MACHETE KILLS, GIMME SHELTER, and THE KITCHEN SINK". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 19, 2013.

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• A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, People, Evil

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• We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Political, Use

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• Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Law, Civilization, Progress

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• Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Evil, Feels

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• I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Country, Opposites, People

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.100

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• you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Done With You, May, Vain

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  Patriotic, Way, Internet

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• It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stealing

  "The Beggar". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they've accomplished for their working people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Usa, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody to practice it.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Practice, Evil

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• Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world's religions.

  Jim DeMint

  Gay, Gay Marriage, World

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• Youth who have been exposed to immoral images at a very early age are terrified that they may have already disqualified themselves for missionary service and sacred covenants. ... I want to assure you young people [that] through repentance you can qualify for all the blessings of heaven. That is what the Savior’s Atonement is all about.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Blessing, People, Heaven

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