关于诚信的英语演讲稿（精选17篇）
Dear teachers and students
hello everyone! My speech is entitled "good faith with us".
Standing under the national flag, I look up at the high flying red flag. There is a picture of the cock standing proudly in front of us - the layout of our great motherland. I can't help but feel thousands of people. At this moment, we are immersed in the sound of the national anthem, solemn and serious to the motherland, silently to the national flag to make their own voluntary. The new generation of us is carrying a thousand pounds of burden. As the most valuable wealth of our country, the first thing that we should do is to speak honesty.
What is honesty? The farmer said: honesty is the fruitful fruit in autumn; Teachers say: honesty is the pure feelings of white jade between teachers and students; Workers say honesty is hard work under the production of high quality and high-quality products. In short, honesty is the foundation of individual and the root of the nation.
We will find that there are many stories about honesty and trustworthiness. At the same time, we also see that the case of the country breaking down due to the loss of honesty can also be found: the failure of Shang Zhou accelerated the destruction of the country; The king of Chu Huai lost his faith, not only died of the country, but also made a generation of good officials Quyuan hate guruojiang; Wu Sangui lost faith and left behind a long history of naming... So, taking history as a reference, honesty is the foundation of our self-cultivation and conduct.
Honesty is important to a person, and more important to a country. A person who does not speak of honesty is a dangerous product of society, and a nation who does not speak of honesty is a great sorrow. Therefore, we middle school students should be more conscientious, from me, so that in the near future, we can shoulder the responsibility of building the motherland.
As the master of the future motherland, we are facing a new era of information, which is characterized by new technology, new information and new system emerging and increasingly fierce competition. To adapt ourselves to this era and make our nation stand in this competitive world, we must be honest and trustworthy. You can have no money, no honor, no health, but you can not have integrity, because honesty is the foundation of individual and the root of the nation.
Students do homework in good faith, integrity test, honesty treat people, which is in line with the call of the times, is imperative. Friends, let us start from the small things around us, not let honesty only appear on paper, become the mantra of our China Education Website document channel, let it be active among us, so that integrity is everywhere. Students, as long as we all act, our motherland will be built in the middle of the day and will be prosperous. Students let us shout "good faith with me!"
Ladies and Gentlemen: My topic is Honesty.
As a correspondent of the Qingdao Morning News, I visited Dr. James Gilman, the President of the International Committee for Marco Polo Studies in England. In this picture, this is James, and this is me and we are looking at a dragon’s tooth. This is a true story.
65 years ago, James lived in Qingdao. Then he was only 5 years old. He often visited the Aquarium and was fascinated by a creature on display there, which he thought was a dragon. He was afraid of its sharp teeth and wanted one to keep as a treasure.
In the late 1930s, when the Japanese occupied Qingdao, his family had to leave. On his last day in Qingdao, he ran to the Aquarium and pulled out one of the teeth from the dragon’s mouth.
He kept the tooth for the next 65 years, but the feeling of guilt at having stolen it was there in the background all through his life. It was always on his conscience, and the feeling intensified as he became older. Finally he decided to put right his childish error. In 20xx, he visited Qingdao and returned it to the Aquarium with his sincere apologies. He received a warm welcome.
It is true that most of us value honesty highly. However, nowadays we often confront confidence crisis such as cheating, overcharging, fake commodities and so on. I think that we should be honest because being honest is not only beneficial to ourselves but also to others and the whole society. The reasons can be listed as follows.Firstly, only honest people can be truly respected by the others and can make more friends over a long period of time.
Secondly, honesty, which is the traditional virtue of the Chinese people, can make our life easier and more harmonious. Thirdly, honesty can make our society more stable. A case in point is that Singapore, a society featuring trustworthiness and integrity, has a comparatively low criminal rate.
Responsbility can be understood in many ways. for the parents , they have had the responsibility for caring for and fostering their children since the birth of their baby.for teachers,both in kindergartens and colleges,they also should be responsible for the study and life of their students,that is to say,teahers are the second parents of children somewhile.
for us,as a friend of others,it is our responsibility to help our friends when they are in trouble or faced with difficulties. each one has the different responsibily based on their roles but we must take it for granted that we are responsible for the society.
Time flies. In a twinkling of an eye, half a semester has passed. This week, Huilan junior middle school will usher in the mid-term exam. As we all know, learning is not for exams. But the exam is a test of the students' learning at one stage. Therefore, integrity is particularly important.
Honesty is the basic principle of life and an important guarantee for the communication between people. There is a saying that "if you are honest with people, people will not deceive me. If you are honest with things, everything will be done." campus is a place to learn knowledge, a place to learn to be a man, and a place to shape the human soul. Therefore, cultivating the quality of honesty and trustworthiness should start from the campus. Our teenagers are the pillars of the future of the motherland and are destined to "unify the family, govern the country and level the world". Therefore, please start from me, from around you, and from small things, so as to "do what you say and do what you do", and be an honest and trusted person.
Speaking of the integrity test, in recent years, the state has attached importance to integrity and signed the integrity agreement before the HKCEE and the college entrance examination, which requires candidates to abide by the most fundamental principle of integrity in the test process and achieve real results through their own efforts. In fact, the examination is not only to test knowledge, but also to test integrity. Integrity test is everyone's basic criterion. If you lose integrity, you lose the pass to success.
I hope everyone can be honest and trustworthy, self-respect and self love, and do not resort to fraud. Honest examination, honest answer, be an honest person! Let the bright sunshine of integrity ignite our hearts and illuminate our life.
My speech is over. Thank you.
If You are Honest, I Will Believe in You
I don’t know whether you have noticed a note while you were eating in the dining room. There was a note put up on the vending machine, and the word on the paper really touched me. It said that, if you are honest, I will believe in you.
The word recalls a story kept in my mind, and now I am so glad to share with you. I believe most of you have watched CCTV Spring Festival Gala this year, but who still remember an old man named Wu Hengzhong. (Look)This man, as a representative of “national moral models”, was invited to pay a New Year call to the people, and was also the protagonist of the story I am going to tell.
He was a common 58-year-old peasant in Tongnan ,Chongqing. What makes him well-known is that he has been repaying a debt, which replaced his dead son. In 20xx, his son, Wu Jun, borrowed money from his relatives and then bought a truck to make a living from it. However, in 20xx, a misfortune befall him as well as his family was involved. He died in a car accident, leaving a 4-year-old child and 19 thousand debt. On the day of bury, he cried at his son’s grave, and said, don’t worry, I will replace the debt instead of you. After that, he was in great distress over the death of his son, but still was strong and alive. However, 19 thousand debt was a really huge sum for him, so for repaying the debt, he just reclaimed all the wasteland in the mountain, the total area 52 mu and became the largest local grower. How much is the 52 muLet’s make a calculation together. Each mu is approximately equal to 666 square meters, so 52 mu is about 35 thousand square meters, and is approach to the area of 5 qualified football court. Can you imagine thatAn old man cultivated a so huge area. It means that he had to work day and night, and actually he did so. At the same time, for repaying the debt, he has been lived frugally, and the clothes he wore were all from others’. While he was still optimistic, he would rather lived hard himself but to be responsible to all the creditors. All this time, he has been repaid the debt little by little, and just because of his good faith, local residents believed him a lot and helped him. Up to now, all the debts has be paid. There is someone once advised him to work in other places so that he could earn more, but he refused for the reason of avoiding others’worry. He thought of, if he stayed in his hometown, so that the creditors would not have the worry of he would not repay their money. And just because of this beli
ef and his good faith, he has been insisted this tough business.
One thing I hope you can realize is that there is no legal provision requires the relatives should repay a debt instead of the debtor,even his father.
Now my story is over. I am not sure whether you were touched deeply like me, but I still want to restate again. If you are honest, I will believe in you. Maybe life would be some different, but you will have a clear conscience, and that is more important. Thank you.
Honesty Is Gold
Honesty means speakingthe truth and being fair and upright in act. He who lies and cheats is dishonest.: Those who gain fortunes not by hard labour but by other means is dishonest.
Honesty is a good virtue. If you are honest all the time,you’ll be trusted and respected by others. A liar is always looked down upon and regarded as a black sheep by the people around. Once you lie, people will never believe you even if you speak the truth.
However, in the tide of commodity economy today, it seems that more and more people believe in money at the sacrifice of honesty. To them, among such things as health, beauty, m6ney, intelligence, honesty, reputation and talent, honesty is the only thing that can be east away. They don’t understand or pretend not to understand that honesty is the biggest fortune humans own, and that it is the prerequisite for doing everything well. I think these people areto be pitied.
In short, honesty is gold. Honest, your reputation will become great;dishonest, your name will be spoiled and your personality degraded. Therefore, we should never make such an excuse as "A little dishonesty is only a trifle thing. We should eradicate immediately the seed of dishonesty once it is sowed in our minds.
Teachers and students:
hello everyone!
Honesty is honesty and trustworthiness, which is the traditional virtue of our Chinese nation. Only by speaking of honesty will our life be better. The story of honesty often happens in life. I have experienced it personally, which makes me feel a lot.
Once, my mother and I went to supermarket to buy two Texas grilled chicken. When we got home, we opened it and tasted it. The more we ate, the more we felt that the taste was wrong, and then we went back and returned. The staff of the supermarket warmly received us. After careful inspection, they repeatedly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." they returned the money to us and left telephone numbers for each other, saying that if there were any abnormalities, they would contact them. This makes me trust them more and like shopping there more. If it's at a stall outside, some people will not refund money or say something bad for their personal interests.
Another time, my classmate asked me to have dinner at his house. I first promised, but later I didn't go because of other reasons, and I didn't call him. Then told me that he was very disappointed. A few days later, I asked to come to my house to play. He proposed that I go to his house for dinner before he goes to my house. This time I went to his house, but he didn't come to my house to play. I'm also very disappointed. It can be seen that breach of contract and dishonesty is a dishonest behavior, which will bring permanent damage to people's mind. This matter always reminds me to be honest in dealing with people, and never break my promise even in small things.
As a primary school student, I want to develop the good habit of honesty from an early age and inherit and carry forward the traditional virtues of our Chinese nation.
Thank you!
With our world developing,more and more people neglect how to conduct theirselves.What is the most common reflection of this phenomenon is dishonesty,which is now seriously influencing relationship between people.
Being dishonest can do harm not only to others but also to ourselves,thus,we must get aware of the importance of boycoting it.Take the case of the Sanlu powder for example.After drinking Sanlu fake powder,lots of babies got sick and had big heads,nevertheless,their bodies still thin.People hateful too much,the Sanlu corporation expectedly get punished and never have choice to make up their faults.
When it comes to the significances of being honest,I consider,we will make good relationship bewteen others,such as in the school ,in the busineand in the society.Furthermore,only if we are honest to others can others become friendly to us.Therefore,cultivate a virtue of honesty and we will get better.
Dear teachers and students
hello everyone!
Integrity is invisible, but it can pass through heaven and earth; Honesty is colorless, but it can shine; Integrity is tasteless, but it can send out mellow fragrance for 5000 years at home and abroad. Invisible, colorless and tasteless integrity has the power to shake people's soul.
At the end of Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Ji Bu who always kept his word and had a high reputation. Many people established strong friendship with him. At that time, there was even a saying: "it's better to get a promise than to get a promise." this is the origin of the idiom "a promise is a thousand catties". Later, Ji Bu offended Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and was offered a reward. As a result, his old friends were not only not confused by heavy money, but also risked destroying the nine nationalities to protect him from disaster.
A person who is honest and trustworthy, naturally has a just cause and helps more, and can win everyone's respect and friendship. Conversely, if you are greedy for temporary comfort or small bargains and lose faith in your friends, you will get "tangible benefits" on the surface. But for this benefit, he ruined his reputation, which is much more important than material. Therefore, breaking faith in a friend is like losing watermelon and sesame.
We are in adolescence. Adolescence is an important period for shaping personality and cultivating morality. How we treat every classmate, how to teach every class and how to face every exam are the test of integrity.
Students, let's strive to cultivate the moral character of honesty and trustworthiness, and let integrity make our personality shine!
Thank you!
Integrity is a little star, small but merged into a dream like the Milky way of gossamer; Honesty is a thunderbolt, shining and stimulating people's false soul lost because of money; Honesty is a delicate fragrance, simple and elegant is transformed into a kind Friendship like Liyang... Honesty may not necessarily create superior success, but I believe it can make people's soul beautiful.
We can lose our status, honor, success, the icing on the cake, but we must never lose our integrity. Fraud really makes you have nothing and makes you fall into the abyss of crime.
It was a hot afternoon, but I had no choice when I went home. I should have been blowing the air conditioner in my room early, but I was still in such a mess. Today I was confused and didn't have any money. Now I can only ask the sky without saying anything. I just blame myself for being stubborn and forgetful. The sun is burning every inch of my naked skin wantonly, I feel like I'm going to be "air dried.".
"God, I don't treat you badly at ordinary times?" As I walked along, I saw a simple money bag. I was a little stunned. It was not a mirage. It was not as hot as that. When I came closer, I found that there was still a lot of money in it. It was stacked neatly from one yuan to one hundred yuan. I was excited: did God hear my prayer? But... Looking at this family, it must not be rich. What should we do if it is urgent?
A kind of idea drove me to stop the car as soon as possible, regardless of whether he was in urgent need or not, "if I found a treasure on the ground, I couldn't take it." moreover, the pedestrians were all in a hurry, and no one paid attention to this gloomy purse at all. But if it's really urgent, then I'm not bad for others. Maybe the money is still hard to raise. When I reach for it, I always feel that there is a kind of vision condemning me, which contains deep disappointment. I tangled and struggled, and finally reason overcame greed. I waited patiently, looked left and right, and didn't wait for the figure of the owner.
When I was about to give up, an anxious figure came to me. It was an old lady in her eighties: "little girl, have you ever seen such a big purse?" She is gesticulating, the brow is full of anxious look. I gave her my purse and she left gratefully.
I continue to walk, the money in the purse is still there, my mood seems to be clear, the sun is no longer so burning, because the light of integrity is far more gorgeous and wonderful than the sun.
Almost all of us heard the story “Here Comes the Wolf” when we were little kids. What we can learn from the story is that we must be honest. However, there’re lots of phenomena of dishonesty nowadays。
Being dishonest does great harm not only to other people but also to yourself. Take the case of fake milk powder for example. After drinking this kind of milk, the babies had big heads while their legs and arms were still thin, which badly affected their health. To our great relief, the producers got accused and punished for all the serious consequences in the end。
Having the reputation of being honest and reliable will make other people trust you, which will provide you many benefits and give you opportunities that others may not get. Being honest, you will find it easier to cooperate with others and people will be friendly to you and support you. In a sense, if life is a long journey, honesty will be the backpack that should be taken along all the way. Let’s pick up our “backpack”—honesty, and start the wonderful journey!
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Good evening, everybody! It’s my honor to speak here, and I am very glad to share my topic with you. Then today I’d like to talk something about sty means speaking the truth and being fair and upright in act. There are just a few of words, however,doing it completely is one of the most difficult things. By contrary, Those who lies and cheats is dishonest,those who gain fortunes not by hard labour but by other means is dishonest.
Now,firstly, I will share one short story that is well known in China. It namedorder to persuade her son not to follow her to the fair, the boy’s mother promised her son to kill a pig for him. In fact, she didn’t plan to kill the pig finally died. Who killed it? Zensheng said,"children know nothing to begin with, but they copy their parents and learn from them, when you cheat the boy, you are teach him to lie" This story tell us, we must have faith. If we always lie to others, we will lose the trust of others.
In the long river of history, there are many such similar stories about honesty. All those stories tell us that people are praising the quality of was true that most of people value honesty highly. Therefore,honesty is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, we should inherit it and not let it break in our generation.
However, now the situation is not optimistic. In the tide of commodity economy today,it seems that more and more people believe in money at the sacrifice of honesty. This is a reason why phenomena of dishonesty upward trend. In people basic necessities of life, it is flooded with fake and shoddy milk, drainage oil; in the political field, many officials have no honesty carring some false bureaucratic activities or movements; in the social life field, many people believe that good faith is a kind of stupid behavior. They don’t understand that honesty is the biggest fortune humans own, and that it is the pre requisite for doing everything well. Do we really want to live in a world full of lies? I think the answer is no. Paradoxically, we all want to have a good faith society. At the same time, the good faith is also the requirement of economy society. We want to have a good faith society, first of all we should be honest.
As a contemporary college students, we are the symbol of civilzation in our country, we should set an example. Just try to put honesty into action in our normal life, we can start small. Like clean up our rooms after making a promise, turn in a wallet full of money that we found, keep a friend’s secret and so on. I believe, the good faith society will come back if we contrive for it!
That’s all. Thank you for listening, ladies and gentlemen.
because intentions are closely related to fairness and certainly affect the degree of honesty/dishonesty, there is a wide sPad confusion about honesty--and a general belief that being dishonest means that one always correctly understands if their behavior is either honest or dishonest. self-perception of our morality is non-static and volatile. it's often at the moment we refuse to consider other perspectives that there is a clear indication we are not pursuing the truth, rather than simply and exclusively at the moment we can muster up evidence that we are right. socrates had much to say about truth, honesty and morality, and explained that if people really understood that their behavior was wrong — then they simply wouldn't do it — by definition. unfortunately, honesty in the western tradition has been marginalized to specific instances — perhaps because a thorough understanding of honesty collides with ideologies of all types. ideologies and idealism often exaggerate and supPss evidence in order to support their perspectives — at the expense of the truth. this process erodes the practice and understanding of honesty. to an ideologist the truth quite often becomes insignificant, what matters most are their ideals and what ever supports their desires to enjoy and sPad those ideals.
human beings are inherently biased about what they believe to be good due to inpidual tastes & backgrounds, but once one understands that a decidedly biased approach to what is true — is inherently dishonest, one can also understand how idealism and ideology have poorly served the quest for an honest, moral society. both honesty and morality require that we base our opinions about what is good — upon unbiased ideas of what is true — rather than vice versa (determining what is true based on what we feel is good) — the way all ideologies would have us believe.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
My topic is Honesty. As a correspondent of the Qingdao Morning News, I visited Dr. James Gilman, the President of the International Committee for Marco Polo Studies in England. In this picture, this is James, and this is me and we are looking at a dragon’s tooth. This is a true story.
65 years ago, James lived in Qingdao. Then he was only 5 years old. He often visited the Aquarium and was fascinated by a creature on display there, which he thought was a dragon. He was afraid of its sharp teeth and wanted one to keep as a treasure.
In the late 1930s, when the Japanese occupied Qingdao, his family had to leave. On his last day in Qingdao, he ran to the Aquarium and pulled out one of the teeth from the dragon’s mouth.
He kept the tooth for the next 65 years, but the feeling of guilt at having stolen it was there in the background all through his life. It was always on his consience, and the feeling intensified as he became older. Finally he decided to put right his childish error. In 20xx, he visited Qingdao and returned it to the Aquarium with his sincere apologies. He received a warm welcome.
When James visited Qingdao, I accompanied him all the time and reported on his visit. I was deeply touched by his honesty. It has taught me a lot. I think to err is human. The important thing is to have the courage to admit and correct one’s error.
Honesty is a vital quality of human behaviour. So we should try to keep an honest mind in everything we say and do. I would like to say to all of my friends: Let’s be honest people of good moral character.
Thank you.
译文：
女士们，先生们：我演讲的题目是“诚实”。
作为“青岛早报”的小记者，我采访了英国马可波罗国际研究委员会总裁詹姆斯吉尔曼博士。请看这张照片，这位是詹姆斯，这是我，我们正在看一颗“龙牙”。这是一个真实的故事：
65年前，詹姆斯一家住在青岛，当时他只有5岁。他经常去青岛水族馆，那儿陈列的一个巨大的生物标本使他着迷。他认为那是一条“龙”，他既惧怕又喜欢它锋利的牙齿，想拥有一颗作为宝贝来珍藏。
上上个世纪30年代末，当日本人开始侵占青岛的时候，他们家不得不离开青岛返回英国。在青岛的最后一天，他跑到水族馆，从“龙” 的嘴里拔出了一颗“龙牙”。
他将这颗“龙牙”珍藏了65年。但是，由于“偷”了这颗“龙牙”，负罪的感觉一直伴随着他，他的良心时时受到谴责，年老后尤为强烈。最后，他决定要改正儿时的错误。20xx年，他访问了青岛，带着真诚的道歉将这颗“龙牙”交还给了青岛水族馆，他受到了热烈的.欢迎。
詹姆斯访问青岛，我一直作为翻译陪同并报道他的访问。我被他的诚实精神深深地打动了,从詹姆斯身上，我学到了很多。我想，人都会犯错误，重要的是有勇气承认和改正错误。
诚实是人们行为的重要品质，所以，我们应该以诚实的态度去说和做每一件事情。我要对我的朋友们说：让我们都来做具有高尚道德品质的诚实的人。
谢谢。
distinguished teachers, dear students:
good morning!
the theme of my speech today is that integrity should spread through the campus.
greetings the morning sun, bathing in the morning breeze, on such a beautiful morning, we are happy that a new week is here. an qing foreign language school is full of vigor and vitality, where we have learned to be independent, to be honest, to grow up, and to understand each other .honesty is a silent language that is subtly moving and hovering around us.
prudential , that is, to be honest; sincerity means to keep a promise. honesty is a traditional virtue in china. honesty is regarded as a moral standard, denoting that people’s thoughts and actions should be consistent, honest, and true.
honesty spreads in communication as well as in enterprise, so does our campus. when we are in contact with friends, no matter how trivial promises, we should always try to keep them. when we argue with classmates, no matter how complicated the misunderstanding, we should be frank. in the study of life, we must resist behavior, such as copying other’s homework or cheating in exams and so on.
an honest and trustworthy person can stand on the community; a trustworthy nation can rank among the nations of the world and win the international trust.
teachers and fellow students: let us start doing small things from the start of life. when you say each word, you have to determine its meaning. do not boast, saying empty words. when you do something wrong, you must have the courage to bear the consequences. don’t quibble and escape responsibility. when you agree to the request of other people, you have to guarantee you can do that.
try your best to influence and encourage the students around you with more awareness and greetings. let the acts of fraud away float from us so that the air in our campus is cleaner. let’s plant the seeds of honesty so that justice and integrity can be carried forward in an qing foreign language school.
It is true that most of us value honesty highly. However, nowadays we often confront confidence crisis such as cheating, overcharging, fake commodities and so on. I think that we should be honest because being honest is not only beneficial to ourselves but also to others and the whole society. The reasons can be listed as follows.Firstly, only honest people can be truly respected by the others and can make more friends over a long period of time.
Secondly, honesty, which is the traditional virtue of the Chinese people, can make our life easier and more harmonious. Thirdly, honesty can make our society more stable. A case in point is that Singapore, a society featuring trustworthiness and integrity, has a comparatively low criminal rate.
Responsbility can be understood in many ways. for the parents , they have had the responsibility for caring for and fostering their children since the birth of their baby.for teachers,both in kindergartens and colleges,they also should be responsible for the study and life of their students,that is to say,teahers are the second parents of children somewhile.
for us,as a friend of others,it is our responsibility to help our friends when they are in trouble or faced with difficulties. each one has the different responsibily based on their roles but we must take it for granted that we are responsible for the society.
Since the quality of honesty applies to all behaviors, one cannot refuse to consider factual information, for example, in an unbiased manner and still claim that one's knowledge, belief or position is an attempt to be truthful. Such a belie
f is clearly a product of one's desires and simply has nothing to do with the human ability to know. Basing one's positions on what one wants — rather than unbiased evidence gathering — is dishonest even when good intentions can be cited — after all even Hitler could cite good intentions and intended glory for a select group of people. Clearly then, an unbiased approach to the truth is a requirement of honesty.
Because intentions are closely related to fairness and certainly affect the degree of honesty/dishonesty, there is a wide spread confusion about honesty--and a general belief that being dishonest means that one ALWAYS correctly understands if their behavior is either honest or dishonest. Self-perception of our morality is non-static and volatile. It's often at the moment we refuse to consider other perspectives that there is a clear indication we are not pursuing the truth, rather than simply and exclusively at the moment we can muster up evidence that we are right. Socrates had much to say about truth, honesty and morality, and explained that if people really understood that their behavior was wrong — then they simply wouldn't do it — by definition. Unfortunately, honesty in the western tradition has been marginalized to specific instances — perhaps because a thorough understanding of honesty collides with ideologies of all types. Ideologies and idealism often exaggerate and suppress evidence in order to support their perspectives — at the eXPense of the truth. This process erodes the practice and understanding of honesty. To an ideologist the truth quite often becomes insignificant, what matters most are their ideals and what ever supports their desires to enjoy and spread those ideals.
Human beings are inherently biased about what they believe to be good due to individual tastes & backgrounds, but once one understands that a decidedly biased approach to what is true — is inherently dishonest, one can also understand how idealism and ideology have poorly served the quest for an honest, moral society. Both honesty and morality require that we base our opinions about what is good — upon unbiased ideas of what is TRUE — rather than vice versa (determining what is true based on what we feel is good) — the way all ideologies would have us believe.