Eugene McCarthy Quotes

One lesson of history is that moral force counts.

What is the purpose of our might if we do not use it for good.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice

Democracy Is What You Make It!

Democracy is moral before it is political.