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Quotes About Ethics

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The number one job of a leader is to protect the truth.
~ Roy Spence
I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.
~ Jerome Kerviel
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
~ Plato
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
~ Horace Mann
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
~ John Locke
Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.
~ Steven Weber
The aim is freedom conscience and truth
~ Robert Fripp
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
~ William Hazlitt
Principle is a passion for truth.
~ William Hazlitt
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
~ Ernest Renan
To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.
~ Adolf Hitler
Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
He who does not lie does not know what truth is.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.
~ Mason Cooley
Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
~ David McCullough, John Adams
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
~ Stephen Covey
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
~ J. G. Holland
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
~ Gary Hamel
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche