Quotes About Ethics

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

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.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

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.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

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.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

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.

I know what sin is.

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.

We had grown too fast at PayPal. Our operating expenses had grown too fast... Growth covers a lot of sin. We want to grow without sin.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.