Quotes About Morality

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

A good man who did a bad thing.

Hell is full of high court judges.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?