Quotes About Ethics

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.

If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

You cant have justice unless you have truth.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.