Quotes About Ethics

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

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.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

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.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

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.

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.