Quotes About Ethics

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.