Quotes About Morality

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

You can't cheat an honest man.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.