Quotes About Ethics

Politicians will always be honest.To themselves!

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.