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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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• I deplore the pornography and all of the immoral degenerate things that are happening in the USA.

  Bill Bright

  Usa, Degenerates, Pornography

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise.

  T. J. Rodgers

  Running, Hurt, Organization

  "Cypress CEO Responds to Nun's Urging a 'Politically Correct' Board Make-up" by T. J. Rodgers, www.cypress.com. May 24, 2012.

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• If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

  Jeff Wall

  Excuse You, Giving, Might

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• What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Democratic Socialism, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Thinking, Practice, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The modern era of liberalism, the one we're living in, really has as its focus or foundation that America is unjust, immoral, and corrupt, and from the days of our founding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Focus, Foundation

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Mean, Bears

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we have delivered to a secretive body the privilege of creating money out of thin air; if you or I did it, we'd be called counterfeiters, so why have we legalized counterfeiting? But the economic reasons are overwhelming: the Federal Reserve is the creature that destroys value.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Creating, Air

  YouTube Channel "voytechs"/"MSBNC - Ron Paul the fed caused the bubble", www.youtube.com. March 20, 2008.

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• To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Rude, Support

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.

  Oscar Romero

  Brother, Names, Order

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• I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.

  Tim Costello

  Unique, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.

  Ehren Watada

  War, Party, Oath Of Office

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• There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morality, Emotion, Immorality

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press

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• I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.

  Lisa Randall

  Religious, Thinking, Afterlife

  Interview with Corey S. Powell, discovermagazine.com. July 29, 2006.

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• I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child’s own welfare.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

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• The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

  Irene Dunne

  Illegal, Fattening

  "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "Love Affair", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Bunch, Jew, Atheistic

  Richard M. Nixon's address to Bob Haldeman (February 1, 1972) as quoted in Counterpunch, March 12, 2002.

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• Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

  William J. Clinton

  Health, Government, People

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• It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Law, People, Break

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Creativity, Creative, Lines

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• Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Essentials, Research

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