Quotes About Integrity

Nothing can justify injustice.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

It is against the sin of forgiveness that I wanted to warn you.

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtues, not of vices.

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Virtue is the giving of undeserved.

Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

I can do nothing halfway. Those who can, have a fissure somewhere inside. Most people have many. They lie to themselves—not to know that. I've never lied to myself.

Any man, who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. That's what I've always thought and- say, what are you laughing at?

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the halfway, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Yet no penny of his wealth had been obtained by force or fraud; he was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best.

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence.

Paray? lanetleyen insan, onu ?erefsizce elde etmi?tir; ona sayg? duyan insan, hak ederek kazanm??t?r.

And, after all, you've got to live." "Not that way," said Roark.

Mrs. Martin, I happen to be committed to a course of action. That does not mean I don't care whether the action is good or bad.

A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at.

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Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.