Quotes About Morality

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.