Quotes About Ethics

It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.

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.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry.

Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.

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

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.

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

I've played my cricket very sincerely and honestly, that's the approach my team takes, and we expect that from Australia as well.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

If the wrong people show their true colors only after reaching our highest offices, Singapore is finished.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.