Quotes About Ethics

I feel guilty about most things, though it's usually to do with actions that would impact on other people.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Freud, again using his conclusions about men's moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego and hence are deficient in moral values. In

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.