Quotes About Morality

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

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

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?