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61 " I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. "
― Anthony Burgess , Earthly Powers
62 " The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality. "
63 " My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don’t harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?' And the answer is, 'Of course they can.' Consequently, I think it’s immoral to harm them. And that seems to me to provide a very strong moral reason to be vegetarian, to not wear leather... it seems to me that our treatment of animals is morally appalling... and that we ought to radically revise the way we live, precisely because they feel pain, they can be hurt, and we’re constantly hurting these creatures! "
64 " Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the other, because each of these approaches tends to divide the whole world into two basic groups. The moral conformists say: " the immoral people -- the people who 'do their own thing' -- are the problem with the world, and moral people are the solution." The advocates of self-discovery say: " The bigoted peole -- the people who say, 'We have the Truth' -- are the problem with the world, and progressive people are the solution. "
65 " You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath. "
― Sinclair Lewis , Babbitt
66 " There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire. "
― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird
67 " The targets of this story are not " wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them. "
68 " You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner. "
― Gillian Flynn , Gone Girl
69 " The libertarian philosophy doesn't explain the best way to grow a vegetable garden!" Why do some people talk as if there should be one concept or principle which is all you'll ever need to know in order to handle everything in life? Right now the PRIMARY threat to humanity--by a factor of a zillion--is the belief in " authority." And the solution--the ONLY solution--is for people to escape that superstition. Questions like, " But how do we care for the poor?" are 100% logically IRRELEVANT to proving that statism is immoral and destructive. " But gee, if I stop sawing off my toes with this steak knife, how will I balance my checkbook?" Why the hell do people imagine that anarchists have some obligation to explain how every aspect of everyone's life will work, just because they say, " Having a ruling class is immoral and irrational" ? When someone tells you to stop advocating evil crap (e.g., statism), they don't suddenly acquire an obligation to explain the whole universe to you, or to guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to anyone ever again. "
70 " I cannot bring myself to judge those who are defending their lands against an immoral violent foreign invader. The fact that the immoral violent foreign invader happens to be the U.S. government does not alter my view. "
― Dave Champion
71 " The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is. "
72 " Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve — help thou my unbelief. "
― E.M. Forster
73 " The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich. "
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74 " By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity. "
― Bryant McGill , Voice of Reason
75 " There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them. "
― Cassandra Clare , The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, #2)
76 " Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. "
― Martin Luther King Jr.
77 " Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall. "
― Ralph Ellison , Shadow and Act
78 " It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. "
― Mahatma Gandhi
79 " The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
80 " We all want good friends - kind, respected, nice. The kind of people you want to introduce to your parents, other friends, pastor. But never underestimate the value of immoral friends - the ones that create the most precious memories you never will tell anyone else! "
