Immorality Quotes

• Jesus says, “You have heard it said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife should give her a certificate of divorce’ a command found in Deut. 24:1, but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife for reason other than sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” It is hard to see how one can follow Moses’ command to give a certificate of divorce, if in fact divorce is not an option.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Reason
  • Jesus
  • Adultery

• Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Reading
  • Immorality
  • Dissuasion

• The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Age
  • Cry

• May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Something
  • Satisfied
  • Immorality

• 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
  • Confusion
  • Reached
  • Compliance

• Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Dissatisfaction

• They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Common
  • Forests
  • Hammocks

• The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. Fundamentalists believe that evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.

  

  Elizabeth S. Anderson
  • Evolution
  • Atheism
  • Fundamentalists

• Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Different
  • Immorality
  • Allowing

• Do not answer to us that these are exceptional cases, for I am ready to prove that this unspeakable degradation and immorality are the normal state of the greater part of the priests of Rome. Father Hyacinthe has publicly declared, that ninety-nine out of one hundred of them, live in sin with the females they have destroyed. And not only the common priests are, for the greater part, sunk in that bottomless pit of secret or public infamy, but the bishops and popes, with the cardinals, are no better.

  

  Charles Chiniquy
  • Normal
  • Rome
  • Priests

• ...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.

  

  Brock Chisholm
  • Truth
  • Extension
  • Pretense

• Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Change
  • Proof
  • Immorality

• Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Injustice
  • Segregation
  • Immorality

• Work by George Grant called Legislating Immorality, which called for the execution of all gay people, but was kind enough to qualify it in a footnote by saying that in our judicial system we would have to give them a trial first.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Work
  • Immorality
  • Judical System

• Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

  

  Barbara Oakley
  • Know
  • Immorality
  • Psychopaths

• All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Intelligent
  • Immorality
  • Crowns of glory

• Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Enemy
  • Attitude
  • Indifference

• If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Book
  • Hope
  • Kill

• 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
  • Pain
  • Secret
  • Pleasure

• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Evil

• Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Culture
  • Literature
  • Destroy

• Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Happy
  • Built
  • Homes