Quotes About Morality

God's truth is this: abortion is murder.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

There's only truth and not truth. You're either very good or evil.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.