Quotes about Ethics
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
- Hillary Clinton
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
- Albert Camus
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
- Ronald Reagan
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
- Edmund Burke
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
- Rachel Held Evans
The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
- Dan Quayle
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
- Charles Dickens
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
- Ellen Glasgow
The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
- Victor Hugo
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey