Quotes About Ethics

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

God's truth is this: abortion is murder.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

There's only truth and not truth. You're either very good or evil.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.