Quotes About Morality

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Conquer a liar with truth.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

There's no God higher than truth.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'