Quotes About Integrity

Ne dopuštajte svojoj djeci da rade bilo što zbog ?ega vam se ne?e svi?ati.

To sacrifice ourselves to God (to the highest good, if you like) does not mean to suffer silently and willingly when some person or organization demands more from us, consistently, than is offered in return. That means we are supporting tyranny, and allowing ourselves to be treated like slaves. It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.

Adultery is still in.

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

An idea begins to take shape: "I am going to live my life properly. I am going to aim at the good. I am going to aim at the highest good I can possible manage.

Maybe following the dictates of conscience is in fact the best possible plan that you have—at minimum, otherwise you have to live with your sense of self-betrayal and the knowledge that you put up with what you truly could not tolerate. Nothing about that is good.

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now.

You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. Quite the opposite. You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. It's a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you. It's appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Corruption of the form we are discussing is, in my opinion, integrally linked to deception—to lying, more bluntly—and more important, to self-deception.

have learned not to steal my clients' problems from them. I don't want to be the redeeming hero or the deus ex machina—not in someone else's story. I don't want their lives.

DO NOT DO WHAT YOU HATE

Have you cleaned up your life? If the answer is no, here's something to try: Start to stop doing what you know to be wrong. Start stopping today. Don't waste time questioning how you know that what you're doing is wrong, if you are certain that it is.

Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

A villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero. A hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil.

not with intent to destroy, or attain victory, because that's not the truth: that's just all-out war).

Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

He found people he admired; who were honest, despite everything. He took himself apart, piece by piece, let what was unnecessary and harmful die, and resurrected himself. Then he wrote The Gulag Archipelago, a history of the Soviet prison camp system.115 It's a forceful, terrible book, written with the overwhelming moral force of unvarnished truth. Its sheer outrage

la auténtica autoridad constriñe el ejercicio arbitrario del poder.

So, simply stop, when you apprehend, however dimly, that you should stop. Stop acting in that particular, despicable manner. Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

Um herói é algo positivo, não apenas a ausência do mal.

What if she had continually and honestly risked

Assume ignorance before malevolence.

With love, encouragement, and character intact, a human being can be resilient beyond imagining. What cannot be borne, however, is the absolute ruin produced by tragedy and deception.