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Quotes About Morality

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
~ Solomon
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.
~ Giacomo Casanova
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
~ William Hazlitt
Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
~ Harry Frankfurt
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.
~ Walter Martin
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.
~ Sándor Márai, Embers
Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.
~ Stefan Zweig
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
~ Guru Nanak
Lying can never save us from another lie.
~ Vaclav Havel
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
~ Ramakrishna
There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.
~ Candy Darling
Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
~ Frederick Douglass
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
~ Rich Mullins
Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
~ John Locke
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
~ Abraham Lincoln