Ethics Quote by Russell Kirk

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

— Rick Perlstein

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

— David Novak

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

— Madame de Stael

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

— Anonymous

Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine,…

— Anonymous

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

— Billy Graham

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

— Jonathan Haidt

“Civil government and economics and society change because theology changes.”

— Joseph C. Morecraft III

“theology moves in the opposite direction of social theory,”

— James Davison Hunter

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in…

— Felix Adler

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

— Michel De Certeau