Quotes About Morality

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

If the price of continuing my political career is to be complicit in a really bad thing then that's not a price I'm prepared to pay.

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically - it's also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.

I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.

As someone who's run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I'd be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

I cannot throw my core values into a dustbin as some do for the sake of power and position. What kind of a politician that would make me then?

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

Politics ruins the character.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

No pope ever condemned slavery.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.