Quotes about Ethics
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
— Marcus Aurelius
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
— Ravi Zacharias
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
— Pierre Corneille
It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
— Adrian Rogers
Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
— Albert Camus
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
— Thomas Jefferson
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
— GK Chesterton
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
— Cicero
Veracity is the heart of morality.
— Thomas Henry Huxley