Character Quote by Arthur Miller

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

— Emmanuel Levinas

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

— Flannery O'Connor

It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me…

— Arthur Goldberg

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Aleksandar Hemon

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

— Charles Kennedy

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

— Michael J. Knowles

“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.”

— Heather Paxson

The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and…

— James Joll