Quotes About Morality

Well, generally, I don't like sin taxes at all, because sin taxes and nanny state politics represent the government making a moral judgment on people's individual choices.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

When I was a little kid, I used to get in trouble a lot for lying. Being raised religious, I believed that lying was sinful, so I felt guilty.

For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.

For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular acts, and if we're good, moral people, we can't be racist - we don't engage in those acts.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Look, I don't hate homosexuals. I've always said that I love the sinner but I hate the sin.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love them enough to tell them the truth: that God puts them in the category with other sinners.

Saints need sinners.

We are all sinners.