Top 100 Quotes About Immorality
#1. The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Roger L'Estrange
#2. 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
#3. I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
Fran Kranz
#4. There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Oscar Wilde
#6. Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.
Quentin L. Cook
#7. To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.
Brigid Brophy
#8. Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
Lee Strobel
#9. What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
Richard Dawkins
#11. Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed - and never will
Martin Wolf
#12. A preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize murder only through wickedness.
Italo Svevo
#13. Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.
Stephen Kendrick
#15. People saw more and more clearly, and now the majority see quite clearly, the senselessness and immorality of subordinating their wills to those of other people just like themselves, when they are bidden to do what is contrary not only to their interests but also to their moral sense.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas
#17. The same conditions that prevailed in Rome prevail in our society. Before Rome fell, her standards were abandoned, the family disintegrated, divorce prevailed, immorality was rampant, and faith was at a low ebb.
Billy Graham
#18. What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.
Billy Graham
#19. 13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Anonymous
#20. ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib.
Samuel Johnson
#21. Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of falsifying the date of his "first" voyage, has not been sustained by the evidence.
Frederick A. Ober
#22. With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
Will Rogers
#23. Moral certainty is intellectual immorality
Kedar Joshi
#24. The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
#26. Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.
T.E. Lawrence
#27. What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.
Agatha Christie
#28. An admitted insensibility or immorality simplifies life as much as does easy virtue; it converts reproachable actions, for which one no longer need seek any excuse, into a duty imposed by sincerity.
Marcel Proust
#29. Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
Henry Ward Beecher
#30. War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?
Robert Muller
#31. In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#32. It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.
Ed Helms
#33. Being happy in God and living righteously tastes far better for far longer than sin does. When my hunger and thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. I say no to immorality not because I hate pleasure but because I want the enduring pleasure found in Christ.
Randy Alcorn
#35. Fear of poverty. Scholars have said that nurturing this fear is tantamount to harboring a negative opinion about God, the Exalted, who has revealed, "Satan threatens you with poverty, and he commands you to immorality. But God promises you His forgiveness and bounty" (QUR'AN , 2:268).
Hamza Yusuf
#36. Politicians used AIDS to energize anti-gay supporters and religious conservatives who heralded it as a consequence of immorality. Pat Buchanan, an adviser to President Reagan, declared, "The poor homosexuals - they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is exacting an awful retribution." A
Sean Strub
#37. Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#38. On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.
John Steinbeck
#39. I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Malcolm Bradbury
#40. Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.
D.H. Lawrence
#41. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.
Thomas S. Monson
#42. parents, part of the older, more conservative generation, talked for a while, about the immorality of alcohol, the way the British had sold Palestine to the Jews and how Israel controlled America "like a boy on the back of an elephant", in their words.
Jamie Alexander
#43. And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.
Warren Jeffs
#44. THAT you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves, from these you do well." Acts 15:29
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. Eleanor would have been indifferent to the immorality of her adultery, but would never have forgiven the stupidity of it.
Sharon Kay Penman
#46. To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. all this immorality and opportunism, this was what characterised them, not altruism, as the stories they had spun would have you believe. But then, this is a world whose running fuel is anecdotes and stories, he reminds himself.
Neel Mukherjee
#48. What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
Alfred North Whitehead
#49. Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
Judith Martin
#50. Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)
Robin R. Meyers
#51. Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H.L. Mencken
#52. There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]
H.L. Mencken
#53. Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality
because that's the reason the family's breaking apart
alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem
and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it
Bill O'Reilly
#54. Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#55. Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity is scorned, immorality is laughed at in school - "God is old-fashioned!" What else can we expect but that thousands of our young people are growing up to be immoral?7
Billy Graham
#56. Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society ... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
Gore Vidal
#58. All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.
Derek A. Cuthbert
#60. But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?
Nancy Garden
#61. We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
Cornel West
#62. Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.
Shakuntala Devi
#63. The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
Karl Kraus
#64. Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Zi
#66. How does immorality slip into a person's life who is experiencing great emotional pain? It does so in the form of relief. The adversary disguises it to look good and justified in the early stages. By the time it is seen as bad medicine, it is well into the system of the patient.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#67. It is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Ellen Glasgow
#68. Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.
James Dobson
#69. To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.
Billy Graham
#71. When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Noah Webster
#72. The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Jean Anouilh
#73. But the point is this Monsieur ... the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious.
Daphne Du Maurier
#74. Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.
Sterling W. Sill
#75. The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#76. Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
Denis De Rougemont
#77. Apparently," Vetinari remarked to Drumknott, "the pounding of the railway wagons will lead to immorality.
Terry Pratchett
#78. The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.
Margaret Thatcher
#79. The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.
Matt Shea
#80. Perversion is considered a biological abnormality rather than a sin. These things are contrary to the teaching of God's Word. And God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin and the Bible says God is going to judge it.
Billy Graham
#81. Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward
#82. The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn't make it right!
Billy Graham
#83. It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#85. As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.
Jonathan Cahn
#86. Be prepared to see it all. If you want to create - God help you if you do, God help you if you can - don't you dare commit the immorality of stopping on the surface. Go deep and take your fair salvage. Do it no matter how much it hurts.
Stephen King
#87. The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
Mark Twain
#88. Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
Judith Martin
#89. God's blessings don't automatically ward off the attacks of the devil as he tries to tempt us with sexual immorality
Sunday Adelaja
#90. Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.
Camille Paglia
#91. Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact with him, turned into a deep moral shock.
Robert Musil
#92. As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#93. The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
Benjamin Walker
#94. We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality.
Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini
#95. There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.
Frederic Bastiat
#96. I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. When he finally confessed his immorality, he made only one request of God: "Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me" (Ps. 51:11).
Max Lucado
#98. The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality.
Ricardo Derose
#99. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Henry Fielding
#100. Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
Sigmund Freud
