#immoral

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#illegal #immorality #lament #life #true

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#immorality #scepticism #sin #life

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (it occurs in a passage of perfectly demented detail about the exact rules governing mutual ox-goring; you should look it up in its context (Exodus 21). The second is from the Gospels and says that only those without sin should cast the first stone. The first is a moral basis for capital punishment and other barbarities; the second is so relativistic and "nonjudgmental" that it would not allow the prosecution of Charles Manson. Our few notions of justice have had to evolve despite these absurd codes of ultra vindictiveness and ultracompassion. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #compassion #guilt #immorality #justice

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

#immorality #music #art

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

#any #beautiful #born #desires #ears

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

#bad #base #creatures #drawn #fascinating

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

#dislike #given #happen #immorality #like

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#book #books #immoral #moral #such

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#ask #because #body #card #does

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#fight #gis #illegal #immoral #johnson