Moral Truth Quotes

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

Sincerity is moral truth.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

Does truth have a moral?

We, armed only with the word of Truth and standing above all public disputes and passions, speak to you in the name of God …

Damon Lindelof said, "There are three kinds of prophets - crazy people, like the Guilty Remnant, false prophets, who just want money, sexy and power and use that to get it, and real prophets - and you're a real prophet in 'The Leftovers'. The voices that speak to you never tell you a lie." And I said, "Name me some real prophets." He said, "Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad." I said, "Which one am I?" And he said, "None of them. You're probably closer to Moses than anyone."

Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.