Quotes About Morality

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

If there is no truth, there is no injustice.

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.