Quotes About Integrity

Une femme libre est exactement le contraire d'une femme légère

Un giorno un uomo mi ha detto: esiste un solo bene, agire secondo la propria coscienza. Credo che avesse ragione, e che tutti gli sforzi che abbiamo la pretesa di fare per gli altri non servano a niente.

Pero, efectivamente, debo esforzarme. Y no sólo por táctica: por moral. He tenido exactamente la vida que quise: tengo que merecer ese privilegio. Si flaqueo ante el primer tropiezo, todo lo que pienso acerca de mi misma no es sino ilusión.

Arapski geograf El Bekri, govore?i o Slovenima, kaže: Ako se oženi i vidi da je njegova žena nevina, on joj kaže: Da si nešto vredela, muškarci bi te voleli i našao bi se jedan koji bi ti oduzeo nevinost. Zatim je otera i odri?e je se.

Inutile de prétendre intégrer la mort à la vie et se conduire de manière rationnelle en face d'une chose qui ne l'est pas : que chacun se débrouille à sa guise dans la confusion de ses sentiments. Je comprends toutes les dernières volontés, et aussi qu'on n'en ait aucune;

the astonishing thing the thing I like is that I should have admitted it. No compromise no act: that proper little woman was me all right. I'm clean I'm straight I don't join in any act: that makes them mad they hate being seen through they want you to believe the stuff they hand out or at least pretend to.

I was clean straight uncompromising. No cheating: I've had that in my bones since I was a child.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are evil simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

There should not be the slightest discrepancy between one's beliefs and one's way of life.

Le beau est le nécessaire, qui, tout en demeurant conforme à sa loi propre et à elle seule, obéit au bien.

I have never caused anyone to weep. I have never spoken with a haughty voice. I have never made anyone afraid. I have never been deaf to words of justice and truth.

The object of an action and the level of the energy by which it is carried out are distinct from each other. A certain thing must be done. But where is the energy to be drawn for its accomplishment? A virtuous action can lower a man if there is not enough energy available on the same level.

Un homme qui n'a pas pris la résolution de fidélité exclusive à la lumière intérieure installe le mensonge au centre même de l'âme. Les ténèbres intérieures en sont la punition.

Jesus' sinlessness should not be equated with emotionlessness.

There had been occasions when David could have seized position and power by means that would have compromised his commitment to the Lord.

It keeps strays in the flock. To word it differently: 'You must live up to the popular code if you believe in it; but if you don't believe in it, then you MUST live up to it!

I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse!

I can never forgive evil and lying and cruel means, and still less can I forgive fanatics that use that for an excuse! If I may imitate Romain Rolland, a country that tolerates evil means — evil manners, standards of ethics — for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

I just wish people wouldn't quote Lincoln or the Bible, or hang out the flag or the cross, to cover up something that belongs more to the bank-book and the three golden balls.

I tell you, an honest man gets sick when he hears the word 'Liberty' today, after what the Republicans did to it!

For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor. To their purpose they could quote not only Scripture but Jefferson.