Quotes About Integrity

It is every man's business to see justice done.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

and believe me to be, my dear fellow, Very sincerely yours, Sherlock Holmes

Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.

Há momentos, meu jovem, que cada um de nós deve se posicionar em prol da justiça e dos direitos humanos, ou você nunca mais se sentirá limpo outra vez.

A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What

Honesty and Poetry are the same thing

No good can ever come of falsehood

Dogs don't make mistakes.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Sentía que había traicionado a un hombre que había sido tan bueno conmigo, un hombre en el que había llegado a ver un amigo.

But then I get to thinking of our mortality and human weakness, remembering there has never been power with purity—anywhere. If you want to be pure, you must stand alone. If you seek to do positive things, achieve something, leave the world a mite better than you found it, then you must choose power and throw some of your purity away. There's no other choice.

and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception

Only once did he remark when the starter,which he was trying to open,literally fell to pieces in his hands,:'If you would write for those filthy boulevard papers,monsieur,you could soon buy a Chevrolet'(which was quite unture:In France the prostitutes of the pen were just as badly rewarded as their colleagues on the street corners).

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one's own conscience is to abandon mankind. History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

And yet if it be sometimes necessary to conceal facts with words, then it should be done in such manner that it shall not appear; or should it be observed, then a defense should be promptly ready. Niccolò Machiavelli, "Confidential Instructions" to Raffaello Girolami (trans. C. Detmold) But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Matthew 5:37 1.

Conscience renders one as unfit for the revolution as a double chin. Conscience eats through the brain like a cancer, until the whole of the grey matter is devoured.

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

he'll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.