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Quotes About Integrity

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?
~ Joseph O'Neill
It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.
~ Joseph O'Neill
I think there is more opportunity now than ever before for women in politics if they will keep their ideals high and go in with the purpose of being of service rather than with the purpose of obtaining an office.
~ Joseph P. Lash
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
Newspapers should have no friends.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
~ Joseph Ratzinger
Is a people that elects as its president an icon that has never read a book all that far away from burning books itself?
~ Joseph Roth
Er war so einfach und untadelig wie seine Konduitenliste, und nur der Zorn, der ihn manchmal ergriff, hätte einen Kenner der Menschen ahnen lassen, daß auch in der Seele des Hauptmanns Trotta die nächtlichen Abgründe dämmerten, in denen die Stürme schlafen und die unbekannten Stimmen namenloser Ahnen.
~ Joseph Roth
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
~ Joseph Roux
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
~ Joseph Roux
I'll show you that you can trust me," he promised quietly. Fireheart nodded, still half-ashamed that he hadn't listened to Longtail the night before. "The Clan needs you, Longtail," he meowed. "Far more than Tigerstar and Darkstripe need you, believe me.
~ Erin Hunter
You betrayed both Packs.' The iciness of her snarl shocked Lucky. 'How can any dog expect to be trusted after such dishonesty?
~ Erin Hunter
Dawnstar, the former ShadowClan leader who had given a life to Raggedstar. "I give you a life for honor," she told Brokentail. "Honor is expected from all cats, but most of all, from a Clan leader. Use the honor of leadership carefully.
~ Erin Hunter
Whitestorm's words reminded Fireheart that, even if he did not yet have Tigerclaw's confident authority, he would never betray his Clan as Tigerclaw had done.
~ Erin Hunter
You can't always do the right thing. No matter how much you want to.
~ Erin Hunter
An honorable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win his battles.
~ Erin Hunter
Thank you," the former deputy meowed solemnly. "You revealed the truth when no other cat could.
~ Erin Hunter
but I've always tried to do what is right for my Clan." "No cat would doubt your loyalty," the old cat rasped. "But how far would it go?
~ Erin Hunter
Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it." "What weapon is that?" Della Street asked. "The truth," Mason said.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
Mi abuelo es un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si yo seré un hombre de bien. Me pregunto si habrá hombres de bien en mi generación.
~ Erlend Loe
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
~ Erma Bombeck
There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.
~ Ernest Brammah Smith