Quotes About Ethics

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

If there is no truth, there is no injustice.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.