Ellen Key

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Swedish Writer

Wilhelm von Humboldt

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Russian Philosopher

Mike Yaconelli

Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.

American Writer

Lee Strobel

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

American Author

Paul Craig Roberts

Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.

American Economist

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

German Philosopher

Sylvester Stallone

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

American Actor

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

American Businessman

Malcolm Bradbury

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

English Novelist

H. L. Mencken

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

Immorality often relates to what a specific culture considers wrong, and these beliefs can vary widely.

Cultural Sensitivity

What is seen as immorality can differ among individuals within the same community.

Subjective Perception

Actions deemed as immorality may not be against the law but are often frowned upon.

Not Always Illegal

Immorality in behavior often signifies a breach of social norms and expectations.

Breach of Norms

Though immorality affects society, it also has personal consequences, like loss of trust.

Personal Impact

The interpretation of 'immorality' can change with context—social, historical, or cultural.

Subject to Context

 into crude and sometimes comic stories. The clergy intended to teach against immorality. How ironic, then, that the morality plays actually encouraged vices as more popular than virtues. By the mid-15th century, the church started to outlaw these performances. Town charters required that any theater

The emergence of drama...

 You sit in a gas station all day, you see lots of morality and immorality, let me tell you. So one Sunday afternoon, a man walks into my cashier's booth with this beautiful jewelry box. Opens it up and there's a pearl necklace inside. And he said, "Hey, I was in the men's room.

Paul Zak: Trust,...

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