Quotes with immoral

  • It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Milan Kundera A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bob Riley According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Michel de Certeau Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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  • Camille Paglia Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Ezra Pound 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
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ayn Rand I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.
    Interview voor Playboy
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Butler It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ellen Key Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Sigmund Freud Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Oscar Wilde The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lady Randolph Churchill There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.
    Lady Randolph Churchill
    American-born British socialite, mother of Winston Churchill
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abbie Hoffman To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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