immorality quotes

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. 148

- Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
  Eating People Is Wrong, ch.5.

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

- George Bernard Shaw
  In the Observer,17 Jul.

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

- Dame Freya Madeleine Stark
  TheValleys of theAssassins and other PersianTravels.

What ismorality inany given time or place? It iswhat the majority thenand therehappento like, and immorality is what they dislike.

- Alfred North Whitehead
  Conversation, 30 Aug. Collected in Dialogues (1954).