Quotes About Integrity

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous with a mean mind.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The key insight is that honest talk transforms and emancipates when it is received in faithful seriousness.

power is not free to disregard truth.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

What our nation needs is a separation of "business and state" as it has a separation of "church and state." That would mean crony capitalism and crony socialism could not survive.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

conditions were degrading only if we let ourselves become degraded.

It is no longer enough to be the best. Somehow, as well, it matters to be wise. To know on whose behalf he wields the sword.

We weren't running the Line, Cowboy thinks, for the Northeast. Or for the money. That was what Arkady and the thirdmen never understood, always thinking we could be bought, that we would respond to economic pressure. And that's what the Orbitals don't understand, what their crystal world models can't figure. That we'd have run the Alley for nothing. Because it was a way to be free.

When all else fails fall back on the truth. No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth Mara Cal Omas

Commonly, people think of philosophy as a quest, however ill advised, for truth. John Dewey called it the quest for certainty. But it is more illuminating to say that, at its best, philosophy is the quest for honesty.

Perhaps that was the day when the bombed synagogue opened again. Or the one when I went to a cobbler who was repairing shoes with the leather from stolen Torah rolls. "I didn't know it was sacred leather," he said. We collected all the pieces together, and he refused the money that I tried to give him for a few ladies' shoes with Hebrew letters written in ancient ink on the soles.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.

An author owes a duty to the truth.

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