#immoral

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

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

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

#bad #feel #feel good #good #i

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#anarchy #away #behind #civil #civil war

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#context #doing #eyes #global #global warming

The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#babies #baby #born #citizenship #declaration

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#follow #immoral #law #says #your

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#authority #bodies #break #country #immoral

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration