Sheri Fink Quotes

No human being or society ... ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

All Americans want our government to have a moral compass.

Civilization depends on morality.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.