A Quote by Ayn Rand

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

Ayn Rand

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Creed Immoral Morality Sacrifice

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Ayn Rand
Russian - Writer
February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

Shane Douglas

See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.

Newt Gingrich

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

Sergey Nechayev

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

Oscar Wilde

[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Robert McNamara

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

Eric Hoffer

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Sinclair Lewis

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

Joseph Farah

You don't ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It's immoral.

Tim Kaine

If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Robert McNamara

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.