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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. -- H. L. Mencken
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. -- Jane Addams
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. -- Gustave Flaubert
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. -- Jean Anouilh
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. -- D. H. Lawrence
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution. -- Judith Martin
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. -- Cal Thomas
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country. -- Noah Webster
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge. -- T. E. Lawrence
Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality. -- Bernard E. Rollin
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion. -- Sigmund Freud
Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so. -- Shakuntala Devi
Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book. -- Ben Hecht
Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open. -- J. Vernon McGee
This is the Immorality Act of 1927.To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives and other acts in relation thereto. Be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa as follows. -- Trevor Noah
Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet. -- Judith Martin
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. -- Henry Fielding
The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned. -- Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. -- Oscar Wilde
I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world. -- Malcolm Bradbury
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. -- Sigmund Freud
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing. -- William Arthur Ward
Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown -- Elbert Hubbard
Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming. -- Billy Graham
Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. -- Sylvester Stallone
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. -- George W. Romney
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
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. -- Frederic Bastiat
But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves? -- Nancy Garden
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. -- David McCallum
Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. -- David McCallum
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it. -- Benjamin Walker
Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened. -- James E. Faust
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. -- Xun Zi
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business. -- Fran Kranz
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
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker. -- Annie Besant
As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. -- Kevin DeYoung
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth. -- Muhammad Asad
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil. -- Hutton Gibson
Moral certainty is intellectual immorality -- Kedar Joshi
Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality. -- Ezra Taft Benson
In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred. -- Auguste Rodin
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. -- Karl Kraus
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company. -- Henry Ward Beecher
It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship. -- Ed Helms
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. -- Milan Kundera
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. -- Oscar Wilde
Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it. -- Barbara Oakley
To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer. -- Karl Kraus
The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality. -- Tullian Tchividjian
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality. -- Camille Paglia
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. -- Ellen Glasgow
As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's. -- Agatha Christie
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it. -- Mark Twain
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality -- Mahatma Gandhi
On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis. -- John Steinbeck
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
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Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope. -- Ted Cruz
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
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
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
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes. -- Denis de Rougemont
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
What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. -- George Santayana
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
Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality. -- Tullian Tchividjian
We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes. -- Cornel West
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts. -- David Mitchell
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity. -- James Dobson
Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter. -- Sterling W Sill
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality. -- D. H. Lawrence
War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet? -- Robert Muller
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect -- Jacques Barzun
With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea! -- Will Rogers

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