Quotes About Morality

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.