Quotes About Integrity

And if he did not always like what he had to do...he never forgot what the alternative would have been. Not only in Argentina, leading the unhappy existence of a refugee, but also in the courtroom in Jerusalem, with his life as good as forfeited, he might have still preferred—if anybody had asked him—to be hanged as Obersturmbannführer a.D. (in retirement) rather than living out his life quietly and normally as a traveling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Company.

Schuld door associatie' is een eenvoudige, maar vernuftige kunstgreep. Het gevolg ervan is dat, zodra iemand aangeklaagd wordt, zijn vroegere vrienden onmiddellijk zijn bitterste vijanden worden.; om hun eigen vel te redden, geven ze vrijwillig informatie en komen ze plots met aantijgingen op de proppen, om de niet bestaande bewijslast tegen de betrokkene te verzwaren; alleen op die manier kunnen ze hun eigen betrouwbaarheid bewijzen.

Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded.

I can give her no greater power than she has already... don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her and how well she has got through the world, barefoot as she is. She cannot receive from me any power greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart.

The soldier must say Yes when he thinks Yes. But when many say Yes and think No, when they feel forced to say Yes, though they think No, or when they say Yes for the sake of their careers, their own comfort or self-interest while their consciences tell them No, the point has been reached where true soldiering dies out altogether. And not only soldiering. This is death's great triumph. For when conscience dies, mankind dies with it.

Nobody rots with me.

the cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.

You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.

Myron likes to say that even the ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies.

Just because you do right doesn't mean that wrong won't still find you.

Win looked at him. "Were you ever in the military?" he asked. Pants seemed confused. "No." "You are a worthless punk," Win said in the same tone he might use when discussing a mixed stock report. "A pitiful ectoplasm such as yourself wearing army fatigues is an affront to any man or woman who has ever experienced real combat. If I ever happen across you again donning any similar garb, I will hurt you severely. Do I make myself clear?

Just do the job, move on, don't leave any tracks. The rest was flotsam and jetsam.

A Ma Vie de Coer Entier

I would rather French-kiss a live rodent than shake the man's hand, but in prison, you do what you have to.

Good time to fill me in," Cornelius said. So he did. "That's messed up," Cornelius said when he finished. "Yup." Then: "Why did you help us, Cornelius?" "Why not?" "I'm serious." "So am I. Not a lot of chances to be a hero in real life. You got to step up when the opportunity presents itself." Cornelius shrugged as if to emphasize it was a no-brainer and that simple, and Simon believed that maybe it was.

So I'm a hypocrite," Myron said. "Happy?" "But that is my point," Win said. "What?" "You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite.

How is Ed?" "He's good." She smiled warmly. "He's a nice man." "Yeah," Loren said, "a prince." "I've known him a long time.

You're the most trustworthy cop I know," Wilde said, "and look at how you bent the rules when it came to finding a cop killer.

It was also lazy parenting, he thought. Teach them to do the right thing because it's the right thing—not because Mom and Dad are looking over your shoulder.

The ugliest truth is still better than the prettiest of lies.

Truth is truth. By definition. Anything else is a lie.

But they also were on some base level congenitally brave. There was a selflessness within them, a purity of action.

But I know my truth.

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.