Art Quote by Immanuel Kant

Bad politics make for bad morals.

— Joseph Brodsky

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

“Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said—and saying it in…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It…

— Daniel Gross

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.”

— Orrin Woodward

“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system…

— William Golding

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

— Madame de Stael

“There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we must recognize…

— Wendell Berry

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

— Aneurin Bevan