Immoral Actions Quotes

At times we used questionable means to achieve our noble ends.

The diplomat holds all acts honorable which bring him success, all things are righteous which serve his ends. If cheating is necessary, he will cheat; if lying is useful, he will lie; if bribery helps, he will bribe; if murder serves, he will order murder; if burglary, seduction, arson or forgery brings success nearer, all and each of these will be done.

Even the best-intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

If the chief party ... be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Let's be clear: Donald Trump is a lewd, lecherous lowlife.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

'Line Of Duty,' for dramatic purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ethical conflicts, whereas the majority of corruption in the real world is simply based on greed.

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years.

… crimes which no law can claim to legitimize.

Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

The government is promoting bad behavior.

Assuming you get useful information from torture, then why not always use torture? Why stop at the bomb that’s already been planted and people who know where the explosives are? Why not people who are building the explosives, or people who are donating money, or transferring the funds for the explosives? Why stop at the victim himself? Why not torture the victims’ families, their relatives, their neighbors? If the end justifies the means, then where would you draw the line?

There's bad apples in every type of job, whether it's sports or normal day-to-day jobs.

Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

If science doesn't convince you, just Google 'cheating politicians' for the long and sordid list of men - like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Sanford, and John Edwards - whose hormones got the best of them.