“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” MeanCharacterHandsPoliticalValuesPeaceSidesCommunityFreedomPowerfulMoralPowerVirtueDemocracyHonestyIntegrityConflictEthicsInequalityPowerlessWashingPowerlessnessNeutralityPedagogyPedagogy Of The OppressedPraxisCommunity Action Book:The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” MenPhilosophyCharacterPoliticalPoliticsMoralVirtueModernHonestyIgnorancePoliticianMoralityExerciseIntegrityClimate ChangeConservativeSelfishSuperiorsSelfishnessEngagedLiberalismJustificationConservatismMoral PhilosophySelf JustificationAnti ConservativeModern PhilosophyModern PoliticsConservative Political Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.” PoliticalReligiousFailingJudgingIntegrityAuthorityStandardsConsciencePhilosophicalOrthodoxDelicacy Author:Lord Acton
“Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.” MenPoliticalIndividualJusticeKingsIntegrityPerceptionLowsCriticismManagementClimateCongressListsDepartmentApologyAttackingContributingChuck Author:Alberto Gonzales
“The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanMightPoliticalMotherPoliticsProcessPayPoliticianIntegrityReformTunesRepresentativesRestoringFinancingPipersRepairingElectoral Process Author:Arianna Huffington
“I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.” WorldWellsGovernmentChristianFormPoliticalSpiritStrongReligiousLibertyChristianityEconomyObjectsIntegrityRepublicanInstitutionsSimplicityAlliesMonarchySplendorRepublicanismLiberty And Equality Author:Benjamin Rush