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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
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David Novak
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1941
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice
Peace
Battle
I Am
Independence
Way
Immoral
Temporary
About
Both
Fact
Results
Spite
Never
Frequently
Permanent
Permanent Peace
Am
Impractical
Won
Often
Nations
Achieving
Victories
Racial
Momentary
Brings
Violence
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
Good
You
Feel Good
Bad
Moral
Immoral
About
Morals
Only
Feel
Know
After
It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
Penn Jillette
Government
Bullying
Me
Suffering
Yourself
People
Money
Voting
Amazing
Compassion
Laziness
Think
Our
Immoral
Guns
Give
How
How Many People
Self-Righteous
Poor
Poor People
Use
Help
Helping
Many
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Charles Stanley
God
Leadership
Fear
Will
Arrogant
Insensitive
Immoral
Slothful
Spirit
Direct
Never
Step
Because
Within
Unforgiving
Us
Holy
Holy Spirit
Full
Things
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Kurt Huber
Justice
Law
Cowardice
Dares
Immoral
Point
Blatant
Reached
Becomes
Cloak
Up
Unethical
Which
Against
Stand
Stand Up
Violations
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
People
Some People
Suitable
Others
Appropriate
Virtuous
Immoral
Some
Diverse
Because
Conditions
Same
Happens
While
Them
Inappropriate
Acts
Humans
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud
Men
Think
Moral
Immoral
More
Than
Far
Imagine
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
Slip
Besides
Citizens
Immoral
More
Directly
Indirect
Price
Rob
Goods
Without
Than
Cannot
Note
Taxes
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Abbie Hoffman
Evil
Sister
Immoral
Brother
Steal
Empire
Institutions
Pig
Equally
Pillars
I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.
Cindy Sheehan
You
People
World
Looking
Believe
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Immoral
See
Someone
Countries
Like
Know
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
Campaign
Goes
Just
Really
Means
Her
Million
Raising
Third
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Third World
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