Michael Jackson Quotes

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

I won't tolerate lying.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

There is a political value in being honest and saying what you mean.

Above all, my brothers, do not swear -- not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No, and you will not be condemned

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.