Quotes About Integrity

Curiously enough the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings.

But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of the world has ceased to believe that your motives can possibly be honest.

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

Formar parte de la minoría, aunque fuese una minoría de uno solo, no te convertía en loco. Había la verdad y la mentira, y aferrarse a la verdad, aunque fuese en contra del mundo entero, no era sinónimo de estar loco.

The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them.

Había la verdad y lo que no era verdad y si una se aferraba a la verdad incluso contra el mundo entero, no estaba uno loco.

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four.

As a magistrate his methods were simple. Even for the vastest bribe he would never sell the decision of a case, because he knew that a magistrate who gives wrong judgments is caught sooner or later. His practice, a much safer one, was to take bribes from both sides and then decide the case on strictly legal grounds. This won him a useful reputation for impartiality.

What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were instinctively, to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

El ataque directo y consciente contra la honradez intelectual procede de los propios intelectuales.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own

La liberté, c'est la liberté de dire que deux et deux font quatre. Une fois que cela est accordé, le reste suit automatiquement.

It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant–it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery–and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.

There was truth and untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

La guerra faceva da garante all'integrità mentale. Anzi, se si prendono in considerazione le classi dirigenti, costituiva la forma di garanzia più solida. Fino a quando le guerre potevano essere vinte o perdute, nessuna classe dirigente poteva ritenersi totalmente irresponsabile degli avvenimenti. Quando, però, diventa letteralmente continua, la guerra cessa anche di essere pericolosa.

to a time when truth exists

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