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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

— H. L. Mencken

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

— Mark Crispin Miller

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

— Penn Jillette

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.

— Albert Bandura

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

— Jane Addams

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

— Plato

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

— Auberon Herbert

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

— Alice Waters

✗Opposing Perspectives

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

— Jean Anouilh