morality on Politics

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

“Moral”…is an orientation toward understandings about what is right and wrong, just and unjust, that are not established by our own actual desires or preferences but instead are believed to exist apar...

When you pass beyond good and evil, you pass into the realm where might is right, and where anything that reminds you of the old moral values—for instance, a large Jewish community—stands in your way ...

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

You cannot make men good by law.

Man cannot be separated from God, nor can the affairs of state be separated from morality.

In his thoughtful book, Our Good Crisis: Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes , Jonathan K. Dodson describes what has become a reality of modern-day life-scandals happen every day, and no-one...

Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally,...

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

There is no good or evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

In these acts of love Jesus created a scandal for devout, religious Palestinian Jews. The absolutely unpardonable thing was not his concern for the sick, the cripples, the lepers, the possessed . . . ...

The devil may also make use of morality.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Morality or duty . . . never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Richard Mouw, the former president of Fuller Seminary and a professor of philosophy, shares an amusing anecdote from a lecture by the esteemed Catholic ethicist Charles Curran. During his talk, Curran...

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Moralistic behavior change done for one's self simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it.

There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immo...

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

What was the sense in saying that the enemy were in the wrong unless Right is a real thing which the Nazis at bottom knew as well as we did and ought to be have practiced? If they had no notion of wha...

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

The British poet Thomas Campbell, attending a horse race with some friends, bet one of them (Thomas Wilson) £50 that the horse Yellow Cap, would come in first place. After the race ended, Campbell, th...

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Food comes first, then morals.

The current popular notion that judging others is in itself a sin leads to such inappropriate maxims as 'I'm okay and you're okay.' It encourages a conspiracy of moral indifference whi...

The disappearance of moral knowledge, in the manner reviewed, is not an expression of truth rationally secured, but is the outcome of an historical drift, with no rational justification at all or only...

It is always easier for us to want to purify other people, and attempt a moral reformation among our neighbors. (Yet) how much have I helped to make her what she is?