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Quotes About Morality

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
~ Juvenal
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.
~ Terry Pratchett
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.
~ Walter Cronkite
Do the right thing because it is right.
~ Immanuel Kant
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
~ William Faulkner
People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.
~ David A. Bednar
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
~ Howard Cosell
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
~ Jane Addams
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~ Noel Coward
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
~ Alan K. Simpson
The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
~ Andy Williams
Beautiful faces are those that wear — It matters little if dark or fair — Whole-souled honesty printed there.
~ Ellen Palmer Allerton
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
~ Mark Twain
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
~ Immanuel Kant
Honesty is better than any policy.
~ Immanuel Kant
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Honesty is the best policy.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
~ Confucius
Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
~ Dorothy Parker
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.
~ Richard M. Nixon