Quotes About Morality

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.

The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.