Quotes About Ethics

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Your character is your destiny.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.