Quotes About Integrity

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

You can be seduced to do this," Zimbardo added. "It's easy for people to delude themselves into thinking that they will be the ones who will do it the right way. Self-delusion is a powerful force for evil.

in the face of inhumanity, a good man reacts--but a great one acts.

The truth is often one's best shield.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

And I honor the man who is willing to sinkHalf his present repute for the freedom to think,And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.

I don't believe in princerple,But oh I du in interest.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.

Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

HCCIC by the C suite at HHS is a profound statement of having the moral courage to do what's right for the health sector

The biggest center of attention needs to be the Secretaries of State. They're the ones that manage the elections. At the end of the day, they're the ones that need to be held accountable.

There has been a failure in moral courage by the technologically astute to step in and lead, selflessly. There's always a product pitch at the end of whitepapers. We need to remove the product pitches and replace it with objective and viable action steps

Transformation is about change, and change needs to be proven. People can talk a good game. Someone can say he's sorry for stealing and wants to go straight. But until the thief returns the goods, we don't believe he's a changed person.  Change does involve an inner realization. But then, to prove itself, it must work outward in a visual form.

Only the actions of the justSmell sweet and blossom in their dust.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

All things flow from the spirit, Master Anderson. Governments are made up of their people. So long as they are men and women of character, the nation stands.