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Quotes About Morality

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
~ Rick Warren
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
~ Aristotle
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
~ Jeremy Bentham
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.
~ Dalai Lama
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
~ Daniel Berrigan
As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
~ Adolf Hitler
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
~ Spencer Johnson
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
~ John Calvin
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~ Charles Colson
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
~ Austin O'Malley
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.
~ Philip Berrigan
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
~ Michelle Obama
Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
~ Suzy Kassem
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
~ Os Guinness
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
~ Lucy Stone