Quotes About Ethics

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

You can't cheat an honest man.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.