Quotes About Ethics

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.