Immanuel Kant Quotes

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

I don't like to tell lies.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

I just have an inability to lie.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

There are times when lying is the most sacred of duties.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

… he knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interest of the country.