Immoral Act Quotes

#1. I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

J.G. Ballard

#2. If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

James Mattis

#3. If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

Anatole France

#4. The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

Karl Kraus

#5. Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.

Phillip Lopate

#7. Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection.

Christina Engela

#8. For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

Hugo Chavez

#9. You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#10. 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

#11. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?

Gloria Allred

#13. how could so many people talk about the good of Query, and the good of the Guard, and then act in ways basically immoral or destructive just to be a little higher, just to get a star with silver edges instead of gold edges?

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#14. The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

Jeff Iorg

#15. There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.'
I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.

Peter Hoeg

#16. Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

Jenn Thoman

#18. Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.

James Jones

#19. There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

Robert McFarlane

#20. Rain changes things. Nothing is as it was after rain.

Carellin Brooks

#21. Always be a little unexpected.

Oscar Wilde

#22. There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

Rafe Esquith

#23. It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

Robert Kennedy

#24. If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Leo Tolstoy

#25. We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

Cal Thomas

#26. There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

Juvenal

#27. Men die. It's practically what they're for.

Catherynne M Valente

#28. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Emma Woolf

#29. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;

Saul D. Alinsky

#30. Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Mark Crispin Miller

#31. Don't be too funny, guys like funny but they don't want to marry a comedian, right? The guy is supposed to be the funny one.

Lindsey Kelk

#32. True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Oscar Wilde

#33. Maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

Babs Deal