Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
“Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #101
“Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of the former”
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
1820s, Letter to F. Corbin (1820)
Context: I do not mean to discuss the question how far slavery and farming are incompatible. Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of the former.
Ian Bremmer (1969) American political scientist
"Managing Risk in an Unstable World," http://custom.hbsp.com/b01/en/implicit/product.jhtml?login=BREM060105&password=BREM060105&pid=1126 Harvard Business Review (June 2005).
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Ch 3 : Creativity and the Unconcious, p. 76
The Courage to Create (1975)
Context: Dogmatists of all kinds — scientific, economic, moral, as well as political — are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyers of our nicely ordered systems. For the creative impulse is the speaking of the voice and the expressing of the forms of the preconscious and unconscious; and this is, by its very nature, a threat to rationality and external control.
Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) Prime Minister of India
MSN News in: Past Prime Ministers: Those who came before Gulzarilal Nanda http://news.in.msn.com/elections-2014/past-prime-ministers-those-who-came-before?page=2, MSN News, 26 May 2014.
Laurie Penny book Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
Source: Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2010), Chapter One
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
About how government can function
1990s and later, "The Age of Social Transformation." 1994
Hans Morgenthau book Politics Among Nations
Six Principles of Political Realism, § 4.
Politics Among Nations (1948)
Context: Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.
“Every economic decision has a moral consequence.”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)
