Quotes About Ethics

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.