Moral And Immoral Quotes

#1. Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

John Hurt

#2. What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

Lisa Scottoline

#3. A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Benito Mussolini

#6. Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Sigmund Freud

#7. The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Mark Twain

#8. The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

Gregory Maguire

#10. There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Leon Wieseltier

#11. 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

#12. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

James W. Loewen

#13. The action we take in the name of love,those are moral or immoral.and normally it wouldn't matter

Cassandra Clare

#14. There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. I am neither moral or immoral. I am amoral, and I express it through my kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

Henry Latham Doherty

#17. Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you? ... Why is it immoral for your to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away?

John Galt

#19. The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness
Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#20. There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it.

Mark Twain

#21. 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

#22. Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

Michael Crichton

#24. Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it to immoral ends.

Dean Koontz

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. The idea that there's good and evil knowledge ... well, that's strictly a religious point of view. Actions can be either moral or immoral, yes, but knowledge can't be labeled that way. To a scientist, to any educated man or woman, all knowledge is morally neutral.

Dean Koontz

#29. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but ... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.

Jean Baudrillard

#31. I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway,

#32. Moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

Nawal El Saadawi

#33. Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.

Marquis De Sade

#35. The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the 'immoral' man. 'He who is not moral is immoral!' and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

Max Stirner