Immoral Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

  Robert Kennedy

  Evil

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• The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Essence, Becoming, Use

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.

  Kylie Minogue

  Men, Married, Unfaithful

  "Kylie Breaks Silence". www.mirror.co.uk. May 11, 2007.

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• See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

  Newt Gingrich

  Law, Jail, Morality

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• Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

  Colin McGinn

  Animal, Evil, Becoming

  Colin McGinn (1997). “Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas”, p.207, Oxford University Press

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• We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.

  Denis Halliday

  Simple, Economic Sanctions, Process

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• Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

  Robert L. Millet

  Men, Modern, Harsh

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• Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Destruction, Should

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.33, Lexington Books

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• It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

  Herman Kahn

  Mean, Views, Limits

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

  Herman Kahn

  Weapons, Nuclear, Use

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

  James W. Loewen

  Ideas, United States, Doe

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.83, The New Press

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• The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

  J. C. Watts

  Dream, Names, Tolerance

  J. C. Watts delivers the Republican Party response to President Bill Clinton's "State of the Union" Address, February 4, 1997.

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• More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about. Never mind the intellectual hypocrisy of this: Those who violate the clublike code are made out to be wrong, immoral, corrupt.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, Hypocrisy

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• To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

  Gore Vidal

  Evil, Greed, Mind

  "Comment, July 1961" by Gore Vidal, www.esquire.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Years, World, May

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• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  Olivia Williams

  Wrinkles, Getting Older, Skins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are moral or immoral or whether they are something that should be encouraged or discouraged.... Quite simply, this case is about liberty and equality, the two cornerstones of the rights protected by the United States Constitution.

  Barbara Brandriff Crabb

  Sex, Couple, Teaching

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• The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Fear, Views

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• A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

  John Goodlad

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is not doing everything in their power to end this illegal and immoral occupation as quickly as possible is complicit with the war crimes being committed in Iraq on a daily basis.

  Dahr Jamail

  War, Iraq, People

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• Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Courage, Teenager, Writing

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• I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

  John von Neumann

  Believe, Space, May

  "John Von Neumann: Selected Letters".

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• Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

  John Hurt

  Moral, Redefining

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• I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

  Jerry Brown

  America, Government, Soul

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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