A Quote by H. L. Mencken

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

H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

Theodore Roosevelt

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

D. H. Lawrence

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.

Barack Obama

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Tullian Tchividjian

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Milan Kundera

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

Oscar Wilde

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Judith Martin

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

Sigmund Freud

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

Milan Kundera

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Roger L'Estrange

While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

George W. Romney

In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.

Sigmund Freud

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