Quotes About Morality

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

I had rather be right than be President.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.