Quotes About Integrity

The fact that creatures cannot act morally toward us in no way diminishes our ability to act morally toward them.

Everyone who derives pleasure from tormenting animals, or watching the torment, insists they do so for only the loftiest motives.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even where animals are concerned.

It would be enough if more of us would simply compare our own principles, our own vision of life and nature, whether secular or religious or somewhere in between, wit the reality of how animals are actually treated, often in our name. If such things cannot be justified, if the great majority of us find them reprehensible and wrong and unworthy of humanity, then why on earth are they all permitted? Why do we tolerate them, in our lives and in our laws?

It would be enough if more of us would simply compare our own principles, our own vision of life and nature, whether secular or religious or somewhere in between, with the reality of how animals are actually treated, often in our name. If such things cannot be justified, if the great majority of us find them reprehensible and wrong and unworthy of humanity, then why on earth are they all permitted? Why do we tolerate them, in our lives and in our laws?

To know and not act is to not know.

When the safety of a state depends on any man's good faith, and its affairs cannot be administered properly unless its rulers choose to act from good faith, it will be very unstable," Spinoza notes.

Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns, sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten.

the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy

Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

We no longer have natural selection. We have unnatural selection. Survival of the fittest has been replaced by survival of the fakest.

Never question the girl who works in the library -Eric

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

You could be naked, you could scream and hang out on the roof, but you do not mess with the place with the books.

She didn't want him to have good qualities. Horrible people should be horrible all the time.

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

If you intend to keep your word, don't talk about it, just do it.

there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you—knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.

A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality.

if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?

They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why. You're opening yourself up, Roark, for each and every one of them. But I never notice the people in the streets.