“American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.” ImportantReasonTruthLyingSimpleWorstTruth IsEthicsTraditionPropagandaTruthfulCredibleBelievablePersuasiveBeing TruthfulAmerican Tradition Author:Edward R. Murrow
“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.” HumansReasonLyingSocialBehaviorElementsEthicsCapacityRootsResponsePatternsAcceptedAncestorMammals Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
“Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.” HumansLongMadeProblemLyingEvilUnderstandingRacePrinciplesTaughtEthicsDignityWeightEmbraceInternationalPhysicsSecureAgreementCooperationAtomsMetalsDomainSanctionsTranquilTaught UsHuman DignityArmamentDisintegrationInternational Cooperation Author:Bernard Baruch
“A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.” WholeTruthLyingIntegrityEthicsReputationLiedTruth And LiesWhole TruthLies TruthGood ReputationMoral EthicsCharacter And ReputationLove LiesLies In Love Author:Baltasar Gracian