Quotes About Ethics

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Politics and football don't mix.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?