Immoral Act Quotes

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.

It [the Vietnam War] is worse than immoral. It's a mistake.

An ill deede cannot bring honour.

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

I want to perform an unnatural act.

I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g:"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.