Quotes About Morality

Sin is geographical.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

Abortionists are not the enemy. Our enemy is sin.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.