Being Quote by Michel Faber

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

— Francis Bacon

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

— Joseph Farah

“moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth:”

— Jonathan Haidt

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?

— Cal Thomas

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable…

— Henry B. Eyring

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that…

— Elisee Reclus

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

— Louisa May Alcott

Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally…

— Auberon Waugh

It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important…

— Noah Webster

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means…

— Richard Dawkins