{"quotes":[{"text":"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["adharma","dharma","immoral","immorality","intention","irreligion","religion","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":3996,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much nonsense as supposing that a badger, a fox and a wolf could build a church. The way to wealth is to become a Christian bishop or a monastery's abbot and thus be imbued with heaven's permission to lie, cheat and steal your way to luxury.","author":"Bernard Cornwell","tags":["christianity","immorality","religion","success"],"id":7907,"author_id":"Bernard+Cornwell"},{"text":"Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably pure, without a twinge of conscience or shame.","author":"Meredith Ann Pierce","tags":["evil","immorality","shameless"],"id":8125,"author_id":"Meredith+Ann+Pierce"},{"text":"If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95).","author":"Karen Armstrong","tags":["amorality","compassion","empathy","immorality","morality","reason"],"id":34291,"author_id":"Karen+Armstrong"},{"text":"So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing.","author":"William Lane Craig","tags":["apologetics","bible","canaanites","god","immorality","israel","real-victims"],"id":54197,"author_id":"William+Lane+Craig"},{"text":"When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["argument","bias","compassion","court","debate","discerning","discourse","discussion","empathy","evil","god","good","heart","immorality","injustice","judgment","justice","love","mercy","misguided","morality","opinions","perception","perspectives","problems","solutions","sympathy","trial","truth","variance","wicked"],"id":58650,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["anarchy","coercion","drugs","ethics","freedom","government","immorality","legality","libertarian","liberty","morality","prohibition","regulations","state","statism","voluntaryism","war"],"id":59239,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["believes","church","hypocrisy","hypocrites","immorality","judgement","religion","self-righteous","sinning"],"id":61859,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.","author":"Nicole Richie","tags":["fattening","illegal","immorality","lament","life","true"],"id":62176,"author_id":"Nicole+Richie"},{"text":"Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","airlines","bail","bail-out","banker","bankers","banking","banking-system","banks","best-leader","big-business","big-pharma","bipartisan","blood","books","brave","bravery","bribe","bridges","build-bridges","capitalism","censor","censorship","chaos","character","citizen","common-man","companies","confident","confident-leader","conscience","conservation","convergence","corporations","corrupt","corruption","country","critic","criticism","criticsm","darkness","decisionmakers","decison-makers","democrat","destruction","diplomacy","diplomatic","discriminate","discrimination","dissent","diversity","divide","divides","division","doctor","doctors","education","educators","election","elections","employment","environment","environmental","environmentalism","environmentalist","equality","ethnic-tolerance","fair","fairness","families","farmer","fear","for-the-people","foreign-relations","freedom","freedom-of-speech","funding","furture","future-leaders","good-leader","government","government-corruption","great-leader","great-leadership","great-nation","greatness","greed","guide","hands","hate","hatred","health-care","heart-driven","hearts","homes","honest","honest-broker","honorable","human-condition","human-life","humanity","humans","humble","hypocrisy","identify","ignorance","immaturity","immorality","improvement","incentives","indentifies","inspire","integrity","intellectualism","intelligent","job","jobs","justice","law","lawlessness","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-traits","libraries","library","lie","lies","lobbyist","losing","love","make-america-great-again","man-on-the-street","mankind","monetary","monetary-profit","money","money-driven","morality","mortage","mortages","multinational","nation","oil","oil-tycoon","peace","peaceful","peacekeeper","peacemaker","peacemakers","people","pharma","pharmaceutical","pick-a-leader","picking-sides","political-science","politics","preservation","president","presidential","protection","public","race","race-tolerance","racism","religious-tolerance","republican","school","schools","scrutiny","secrecy","security","segregation","selecting","serves-the-people","silencing-dissent","sly","society","speech","spending","stability","street","street-level","strong","teacher","teachers","team","terror","tolerance","tolerate","transparency","truth","truthfulness","understand","understanding","unite","unites","uniting","unity","vote","voter","voting","walls","war","we-the-people","weapons","wisdom","word"],"id":77345,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}