Definition of Immoral

Immoral

Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

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Immoral Quotations

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

About morals, 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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert Camus

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
Marilyn Manson

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Thomas Aquinas

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Epictetus

Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer

What is more immoral than war?
Marquis de Sade

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush Limbaugh

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas Hardy

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
Robert Rauschenberg

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
John Galsworthy

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.
Herman Kahn

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
Herman Kahn

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
Herman Kahn

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
Bianca Jagger

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
Clarence Thomas

The law is immoral.
Mark Thomas

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Emmanuelle Beart

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.
Theodore Sturgeon

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
Dennis Prager

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Immoral Translations

immoral in German is sittenlos, unsittlich, unmoralisch
immoral in Norwegian is umoralsk
immoral in Spanish is inmoral

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