“People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”
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Marilyn Manson 78
American rock musician and actor 1969Related quotes
1960s-1980s, "Industrial Organization: A Proposal for Research" (1972)
“To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.”
Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972), Ch. 14.
“Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
in a December 6, 2006 interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
“All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.”
"The Knock at the Stage Door" in Reader's Digest (December 1933); also in A Dictionary of Catch Phrases : British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day (1986) http://books.google.com.br/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC&pg=PA24&dq=All+the+things+I+really+like+to+do+are+either+illegal,+immoral,+or+fattening by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale, ISBN 041505916X, ISBN 9780415059169 .
“The most fun things in life are either immoral, illegal or they make you fat.”
Variant: If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
[Albert Bandura, 1982, Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency, American Psychologist, 37, 2, 122-147, 10.1037/0003-066X.37.2.122, 0003-066X] (p. 127)