Quotes About Ethics

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.

As long as I did the good things associated with religion, I thought I was in good shape spiritually, too.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

People say a wife is always one-up because she has the man. I say the 'other woman' is ten-up because the man wants her in spite of having a wife.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.

It bothers me when people spoil the market.

I feel sorry that maybe there are some people out there that think our integrity is a little spoiled because we have a bigger fanbase now, but what can you do?

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

We were four kids and my father and mother brought us up with very strong values. We weren't spoilt at all.

Abraham Lincoln spoke out against the Mexican War. But once Americans were under fire, people who were on the fence felt obliged to support it.

I've never gone and spoken to an audience, you know, 'come and be my patient.' I've never taken an ad in a newspaper, 'come and be my patient.'

I never wear fur, and I am a spokesperson for PETA.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.