Quotes About Ethics

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Politics is applied biology.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.