Quotes About Ethics

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.