Quotes About Integrity

Barry Eisler

People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there's just what you can do, and what you can't. Well, I could. And I was going to.

But she was also uneasy. She remembered when she'd been in college and had come across the Nietzsche quote: Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

Men of character continued to sail to their death for men of greed.

Quando, dalle prigioni delle nostre città, volgiamo lo sguardo alla wilderness, quando il nostro intelletto sperimenta il privilegio di condurre una vita scevra da convenzioni insensate o senza colpe né sotterfugi, in breve, una vita integra, credo che possiamo rivolgerci al lupo. In esso percepiamo il coraggio, la resistenza e un modo di vivere franco e leale; percepiamo che è in armonia con l'universo mentre noi non lo siamo ancora.

To consider that the honeybee and the wild horse have their own integrity and perhaps even their own aspirations, and can no longer be viewed as subjects, willing to participate in the construction of a world built to serve the needs and desires of human beings alone.

Practical wisdom, Aristotle told us, is the combination of moral will and moral skill.

Justice is a mighty fine thing.

To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.

if the ends are sufficiently important to require lies instead of the truth.

the truth that people should prefer to suffer injustice than commit it, that they should actually be good instead of simply seeming to be.

people either live in the light or walk in the darkness; they either stand for the truth or propagate error.

if I was truly committed to God, I also had to be fully committed to the truth.

there was no way to control what one person said to the next

because it intends to lead readers astray. But in another sense plagiarism can be seen as the flip side of forgery. Forgers write their own words and claim they are the words of another; plagiarists take the words of another and claim they are their own.

Often their false teachings are said to be matched by their promiscuous lives.

Poet appointed dare not decline to walk among the bogus...

A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests.

A man's mouth gets him in more trouble than his pecker ever could, most of the time.

Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.

Oh, about beer I never lie,' Crandall said. 'A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

There's really no just about it, is there?

lies and love rarely went together, and never for long.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my mind.