Quotes About Morality And Politics

#1. Conservatives talk constantly about the centrality of morality and the family in their politics, while liberals did not talk about these things until conservatives started winning elections by doing so.

George Lakoff

#2. Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Jeanne Shaheen

#3. Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

Ralph Raico

#4. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.

Richard Just

#5. Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

Charles Sumner

#6. Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

Sathya Sai Baba

#7. Politics is a slippery ground; they that wish to walk on this ground must walk with due care and courage!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity.

Michael Moore

#9. When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.

J.S.B. Morse

#10. The actual theme of corruption can condemn humanity and this conflict can be resolved when people are diligent to put an end to this catastrophe as a community.

Saaif Alam

#11. Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.

Bryant McGill

#12. He was fighting hard to draw a line where politics could stop, where family loyalty could stop and his own personal morality and his own life could begin. It was hard to find that place

Bob Woodward

#13. Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were threatened. I'm the tiebreaker.

Arthur C. Clarke

#14. The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

George Washington

#15. One [dogma] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators.

Steven Pinker

#16. What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals.

Karl R. Popper

#17. Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should remember this in an age where morality seems to be disappearing and is being replaced by politics.

Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy Of Newcastle

#18. Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

Antonio Damasio

#19. Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.

R.J. Rushdoony

#20. From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other master; it no sooner speaks than probity and duty lose their weight and blind obedience is the only virtue which slaves can still practice.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#21. This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

Denis De Rougemont

#22. Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Vaclav Havel

#23. It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

Max Weber

#24. We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.

Vaclav Havel

#25. The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.

Alexis Tsipras

#26. Political realists see the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest.

Saul D. Alinsky

#27. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle.

#28. Politics is a mirror with an untamed tongue; they that wish to walk in front of it must be mindful this!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#29. Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.

Michael Dobbs

#31. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Taylor Caldwell

#33. I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.

Anthony Marra

#34. Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Franz Werfel

#35. Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Aleksandar Hemon

#36. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#37. Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

Madame De Stael

#38. Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

Robert V. Remini

#39. Why do people fear hell so much? With so much hatred and division amongst mankind, we are already in it.

Suzy Kassem

#40. Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Jonathan Haidt

#41. Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades ... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

Greg Bear

#42. In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.

Gustave Le Bon

#43. The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Madame De Stael

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#45. As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the "sacredness of human life" remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

Leon Trotsky

#46. The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.

Jean Baudrillard

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

Richard John Neuhaus