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Quotes About Morality

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
~ William Lloyd Garrison
You should not honor men more than truth.
~ Plato
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.
~ Luis Bunuel
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
~ Alain Badiou
Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.
~ Muhammad
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
~ James E. Faust
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
~ Petrarch
The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.
~ Max Born
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
~ Maimonides
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.
~ Judas Iscariot
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
~ William Shakespeare
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
~ Edward Teller
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
~ William Jennings Bryan
When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.
~ Craig Groeschel
Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.
~ Randy Alcorn
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
~ Horace
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
~ William Hazlitt
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
~ Linus Pauling
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
~ Alain Badiou
She didn't know how Charlie did this on a daily basis. Maintain order. Honestly, it would have been easier just to make a run for it or lay waste to everyone in a five-mile radius. Illegal but easier. Oh, and . . . yeah . . . morally wrong
~ Shelly Laurenston
Are you really coming at me?" "Lady, I'm trying to be nice to you. But I wouldn't push your luck with me." "You? Tiny little hybrid freak? What are you going to do?" "Morally reprehensible things that most good people would be appalled by.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
~ Sheri Holman