Public Ethics Quotes

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

Ethics is not a job that anyone turns to naturally, but every public agency has to have it.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to men who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

Moderation in the pursuit of truth is no virtue. Vigilance in the defense of public ethics is no vice.

I've always believed that our public actions need to take account of our social responsibility.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.