Quotes About Integrity

The 'factious person' ... is the one who insists on such divisive debates even when their consequences become obvious. Such a person would rather be right than righteous, would rather maintain theoretical integrity than the health of the community. ,264

Christ did not exalt himself in a world full of self-promotion; rather he stepped down and served others, which most, especially the elite, in the Greco-Roman world would have seen as despicable, not admirable.

Loving talk is cheap when costly deeds are required.

C. H. Dodd puts it this way: "To over-spiritualize religion is to weaken it ethically. ,286

If you try to chase it, if you try to follow trends and anticipate what the next thing is going to be, you will fail. You just have to leave it, you have to go with what it is. You have to be true, you have to be honest.

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

bisognerebbe mettere in croce, a trent'anni, ogni fanatico, perché colui che è stato un illuso, rinsavito, si converte in briccone

L'onestà politica non è altro che la capacità politica.

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.

A president is a minister, chosen to administer integrity and unmask evil schemes in its regime, how blessed is such a nation.

Courageous leaders obey God rather than men and will be rewarded, they are honest law-abiding citizens.

Parece buen muchacho ese Pablo.

Esto se acabó. Es cuanto por ahora podemos decir de las personas que parecen buenas y no lo son.

La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Never complain and never explain.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

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He hauled in Michelangelo, commanding the aged maestro to make the naked figures in The Last Judgment "suitable" for the papal chapel. Michelangelo hotly replied: "Let His Holiness make the world a more suitable place, and then the painting will follow suit." That was the last time Buonarroti had anything to do with Carafa.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Be just, I would always recommend to the men in power. Be just whatever happens, because, if you cannot govern with justice, even with injustice you would not govern for long.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.