Quotes About Integrity

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don't have to have the ear for what's tight and what's not, which is something a lot of people don't have.

Sometimes it can be difficult for me if Ross writes something inaccurate or hurtful. Ronald Ferguson used to ring me up and say, 'Ingie, Major here! What rubbish has your husband been writing about me now?'

If a columnist writes that something happened on a certain date, or that the government spent a certain amount of money on something, or that a specific number of people have died in the war in Iraq, to pick a few examples, it is his or her responsibility to make certain that information is correct.

It's very important to me I get my autobiography out before I die and someone else writes it and screws up my life.

You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted.

It was hard to tell what her weapons were, except for that sort of inane good sense and emotional honesty.

in a people whose moral code is so lax, so little is wrong.

Ask me no questions and I'll spell you no lies, she said.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis," she said, "those who are the most themselves are the victims.

She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs.

Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.

You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.

Feeling right" is about living the life that's right for you—in occupation, location, marital status, and so on. It's also about virtue: doing your duty