Quotes About Integrity

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

Don't crap where you eat

He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.

I won't let myself be used or manipulated. I won't let myself be a hypocrite. I am foe me. I am not weak. For anyone.

when you see your friend—or someone you think and hope might someday be more—abused, you do what you can to stop it. Who doesn't do that? What kind of person doesn't do that?

I could have lied to you. It would have been a lot easier. I could have told you I was gay. Or blamed my dad, or my religion. I could have said that I had a boyfriend back in Baltimore. Because guys will listen when you tell them you belong to someone else. Like, you'll respect some made-up guy, but not me. I thought you were different. I trusted you. I told you the truth.

as the public grows more and more cynical, the politician feels less and less compelled to take his promises seriously.

In our attempt to make education "fun," we have neglected the academic disciplines that develop sound minds and are conducive to sound characters.

is entirely appropriate that in twenty-first-century Britain streets that were once filled with artists now contain Britain's highest concentration of advertising agencies; real artists displaced by the counterfeit, the second rate; creative individuals prostituting their talent.

bullshit might help you get to the top, but it won't keep you there.

But clearly, the lesson is that incentives can be a dangerous weapon. A critic of this research might say that the problem is not incentives, but dumb incentives. No doubt, some incentives are dumber than others. But no incentives can ever be smart enough to substitute for people who do the right thing because it's the right thing.

How can you compete, being honor bred, with one who, were it proved he lies, were neither shamed in his own nor his neighbor's eyes?

When you in de right you heart strong you no 'fraid nottin'.

The clause "whose inside is not like his outside" is used elsewhere in the Talmud (b. Yoma "The Day" 72b) to indicate a person who puts on a nice show for others that does not conform to his inner, true self—a morally deceptive person in other words.

So refusing to say you won't do something is the moral equivalent of doing

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

People are just more willing to follow someone they like and trust.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

There are many who fear disgrace, few who fear conscience.

It is not right that any one should be advocate and judge in the same case.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...