Quotes About Incorruptibility

In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.

If the Earth were not subject to any change I would consider the Earth a big but useless body in universe, paralyzed...superfluous and unnatural.Those who so exalt incorruptibility, unchangeability and the like, are, I think, reduced to saying such things both because of inordinate desire they have to live for a long time and because of the terror they have of death...they do not realize that if men were immortal, they would have never come into the world.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

An informed public depends upon literacy and language: its good use, conception, comprehension and incorruptibility.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

Cosa inaudita a constatarsi, e che risplende nella meravigliosa probità delle nostre rivoluzioni popolari, una certa incorruttibilità risulta dall'idea che è nell'aria di Parigi come il sale è nell'acqua dell'Oceano. Respirando Parigi, si conserva l'anima.

Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

Things are not incorruptible, but offspring104 are. Nothing can receive incorruptibility unless it is an offspring.105 And whatever cannot receive certainly cannot give.