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Quotes About Integrity

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
~ Arthur Miller
What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
~ Arthur Miller
Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!
~ Arthur Miller
most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory
~ Arthur Miller
There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.
~ Arthur Miller
He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.
~ Arthur Miller
We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.
~ Arthur Miller
PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
~ Arthur Miller
See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals . . .
~ Arthur Miller
We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
~ Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
~ It is a lie.
John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court!
~ Arthur Miller
More Weight. Giles Corey
~ Arthur Miller
Every man does have a star. the star of one's honesty. and you spend your life groping for it, but once its out it never lights again.
~ Arthur Miller
To admit what you see endangers principles.
~ Arthur Miller
Who worked for nothin' in that war? When they work for nothin', I'll work for nothin'. Did they ship a gun or a truck outa Detroit before they got their price? Is that clean? It's dollars and cents, nickels and dimes; war and peace, it's nickels and dimes, what's clean? Half the Goddam country is gotta go if I go! That's why you can't tell me.
~ Arthur Miller
JIM, gets up: Chris would never know how to live with a thing like that. It takes a certain talent . . . for lying. You have it, and I do. But not him.
~ Arthur Miller
Porque ahí está mi nombre! ¡Porque no tendré otro mientras viva! ¡Porque he mentido y he firmado mentiras! ¡Porque no merezco besar el polvo que pisan los pies de los que van a ser ahorcados! ¿Cómo voy a vivir sin mi nombre? ¡Le he entregado el alma, déjeme al menos mi nombre!
~ Arthur Miller
Authenticity soothes the soul.
~ Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles---for then he is off his guard.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer