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• The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Pain, Thinking, Men

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• Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

  Gore Vidal

  Philosophy, Evil, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 18, 2011

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• In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fall, May, Limits

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, De Officiis (44 B.C.), I. 29, 1922.

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• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Selfish, Evil

  "Lee Strobel Probes 'Why?' During First Sunday Service After Colorado Shooting" by Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Winning, People, Political

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• Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

  Milan Kundera

  Views, Evil, Judging

  "Testaments Betrayed". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• The main problem with the Democrats is their utter negativity. They're made up of schumucks and hypocrites. They also have higher levels of immorality.

  Jackie Mason

  Hypocrite, Negativity, Levels

  Source: spectator.org

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• Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.

  Malcolm X

  Godly, Land, People

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.282, Ballantine Books

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• The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Fundamentals, Sides

  "The speech Donald Trump should give tonight to win it all" by Monica Crowley, www.washingtontimes.com. July 20, 2016.

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• The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Profound, Use

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• We are living in a culture that if you criticize immorality you could be branded as a "bigot". I am going to lose a lot of support just by saying this. I am not a politician and I am not running a popularity contest. My job is to defend our world from Islam. You asked why the westerners convert to Islam and I must tell the truth as I see it. If that offends anyone, let him be offended.

  Ali Sina

  Running, Jobs, Our World

  Source: myislam.dk

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• The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life.

  Ted Haggard

  Liars, Responsibility, Dark

  "Haggard admits 'sexual immorality,' apologizes" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. November 5, 2006.

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• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Equality, Animal, Should Have

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• Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Morality, Produce, Moralism

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.59, David C Cook

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• Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will sap spiritual strength to endure. Pornography is much like quicksand. You can become so easily trapped and overcome as soon as you step into it that you do not realize the severe danger. Most likely you will need assistance to get out of the quicksand of pornography. But how much better it is never to step into it. I plead with you to be careful and cautious.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Home, Broken

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• Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Evil, Dying

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• And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?" Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. "God, Bones...some of that was depraved." "I'll take that as a compliment." He closed the distance between us."I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Morning, Distance, Love You

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• All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.

  Derek A. Cuthbert

  Cheating, Selfish, Lying

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• Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teaching, Theory Of Evolution, Ifs

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Data, Intellectual

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• In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Men, Two

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• The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Winning, Thinking

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• Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Dollars, Taxation

  Ronald Reagan (1981). “Rendezvous with destiny”, Osmond Pub Co

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• Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

  Martin Wolf

  Saint, Capitalism, Comparison

  Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.57, Yale University Press

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