Quotes About Morality

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.