84 Quotes About Immorality

Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht einbilden, wir seien nun als Menschen anders und besser geworden. Es gibt keine endgültig errungene moralische Vollkommenheit - für niemanden und kein Land! Wir haben als Menschen gelernt, wir bleiben als Menschen gefährdet. Aber wir haben die Kraft, Gefährdungen immer von neuem zu überwinden."[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably pure, without a twinge of conscience or shame.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.