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• God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

  Charles Stanley

  Leadership, Arrogant, Steps

  "Dr. Charles Stanley on Destructive 'Landmines' Believers Face". Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Government is essentially immoral.

  Herbert Spencer

  Government

  Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• It is immoral not to tell.

  Albert Camus

  Writing

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• The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, Life And Death, Pro Life

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• I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

  Michael Moore

  Country, War, Lying

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• Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

  Colin Mochrie

  Years, Two, Dolphins

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• The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Son, Men, Feelings

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

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• It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Accountability

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press

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• People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Looks, Illegal

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• The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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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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• 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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• 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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• I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, War, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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