Quotes About Amorality

#1. For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Simone Weil

#4. Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that he was, ever have overlooked her roots.

Elizabeth Palmer

#5. Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality, and nervous excitability. 176

Fernando Pessoa

#6. I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

Woody Allen

#7. A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

Lynn Coady

#8. The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Karl Kraus

#9. In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. Ultimately amorality is immorality.

Roger M. Keesing

#11. How deep, how recondite this seeming petty heart,
In whose recesses right and wrong lie dimmed by distance.

Soseki Natsume

#12. I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Alice Walker

#13. I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long
discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

Anne Lamott

#14. Moral spontaneity" corresponds entirely with "religious and orthodox philosophy", "constitutional monarchy", "the Christian state", "freedom with certain limits", or in a figure, to the hero fetters to a sick bed.

Max Stirner

#15. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.

D.L. Moody

#16. One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

Bryan Adams

#17. If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

Karen Armstrong

#18. We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

George W. Bush

#19. You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. These new groups would act as the privatized auxiliary force Rove had been dreaming of for years. Rove told the moneymen, "People call us a vast right-wing conspiracy, but we're really a half-assed right-wing conspiracy. Now," he emphasized, "it's time to get serious.

Jane Mayer

#21. Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

#22. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

Buzz Aldrin

#23. The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.

Ehab Atalla

#24. A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

Norma Fox Mazer

#25. It is therefore recommended ... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

Samuel Adams

#26. Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.

Lin Yutang

#27. Arthur is my middle name; George is my dad's middle name.

Rob Kardashian

#28. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

H. Rider Haggard