Quotes About Ethics

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

I say that justice is truth in action.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

The law is agnostic about truth.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.