Quotes About Morality And Immorality

#1. 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

#2. Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil.

Auliq Ice

#3. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Russell Baker

#4. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

Stefan Molyneux

#5. The challenge for people today
and it is not and easy one
is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

Nathaniel Branden

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

Sigmund Freud

#7. It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Mark Twain

#9. Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Judith Martin

#10. The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality.

Ricardo Derose

#11. Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Sigmund Freud

#12. The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

Karl Kraus

#13. 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

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

Karen Armstrong

#15. The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Tullian Tchividjian

#16. Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Elbert Hubbard

#17. The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

D.H. Lawrence

#18. There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Milan Kundera

#20. We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

George W. Romney

#21. Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

David Mitchell

#22. The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

Tullian Tchividjian

#23. I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

Criss Jami

#25. 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

#26. Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with.

Plato

#27. 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

#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

#29. There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde

#30. One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Robert Musil

#31. Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Tullian Tchividjian

#32. Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Karl Lagerfeld

#33. Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

Kedar Joshi

#34. Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.

Ron Brackin

#35. New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

Billy Graham

#36. Unorganized morality is called sociability. Organized morality is called civilization. Unorganized immorality is called barbarity. Organized immorality is called statism.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#37. The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

Fulton J. Sheen

#38. 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

#39. The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

Glenn Greenwald

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H.L. Mencken

#44. The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

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

Karl Kraus