Amorality Quotes

• True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Attitude, Names

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• The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

  Karl Kraus

  Women, Triumph, Morality

  Karl Kraus (1976). "Verdades a medias y verdades y media: Aforismos escogidos"

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• In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.173, 1982.

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• Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

  Bill Vaughan

  Blow, Wind, Enemy

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• She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, ‘She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Beautiful, Kissing, Long

  Lawrence Durrell (1957). "Justine: De Lawrence Durrell"

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• There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Morality, Aliens

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 169, 1968.

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• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.

  Paul Krugman

  Essence, Ideas, Apples

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• ...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Meaningful, Real, Book

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• 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.

  José Ortega y Gasset

  Negative, Doe, Morality

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Por supuesto, los Clinton no sólo son corruptos, sino también cínicos. Aceptan que los medios de comunicación progresistas, las fundaciones, las universidades, las burocracias, Hollywood y Silicon Valley honren el poder más que la política de izquierdas de moda; entienden bien que sus fans harán, por ellos, los ajustes necesarios para contextualizar la criminalidad o amoralidad de Clinton.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Medios, Alas, Cínico

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Pero aún así, pero aún así, ¡ay, ay de aquellos que piensan que la Generación Beat significa crimen, delincuencia, inmoralidad, amoralidad... ay de aquellos que la atacan alegando que simplemente no entienden la historia y el anhelo de las almas humanas... ay de aquellos que hacen películas malvadas sobre la Generación Beat en las que amas de casa inocentes son violadas por beatniks! ... ¡ay de los que escupen sobre la Generación Beat, el viento se lo devolverá!

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Blow

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• I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

  Woody Allen

  Madre, Actitud, Padre

  Entrevista con Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. 1 de septiembre de 2008.

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• For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Self, Imagination

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