Moral Turpitude Quotes

Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

Samuel Chase is tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested, to the low purpose of an electioneering partisan

President [George W.] Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President's decision threatens Americans' lives.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

We are not far from the kind of moral decay that has brought on the fall of other nations and peoples.

It isn’t easy, but I guess I can understand why the good citizens of the hill country might let themselves be represented in Washington by a man who drinks too much. It isn’t easy, but I guess I can even understand why the good citizens of the hill country might even let themselves be represented by a man in Washington who carouses with city women while his wife and children are back here working the land. But, as God is my witness, I will never understand why the good people of the hill country would let themselves be represented by a man who takes female sheep up into the hills alone at night!

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

It seemed to me to be entirely un-kosher, if that's a word, to try to put a debate about war right in front of the midterm to try to affect the midterm outcomes.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that may accompany it.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

There's no negative to this except I might lose the [Democratic presidential] nomination to Bob Kerry .... Because he's single, nobody cares who he's screwing.

Roy Moore was an embarrassment.

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.

Politics ruins the character.

I had enabled the development of a corrupt system right under my very eyes..