Quotes About Ethics

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

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?

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

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.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

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

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.