Quotes About Integrity

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.

I love my girlfriend to bits. I'd never do anything to hurt her.

Schools may be famous for many things: academics, graduates, sports teams. They are not supposed to be famous for murders.

Sony-ils tous (...) criminels s'ils en avaient l'occasion, innocents seulement par impuisance, et prets a se servir du mal pour accomplir leur ambition? (...) La nature humaine est-elle si detestable, ou bien est-ce la royaute qui nous rend ainsi?

If there's anything I'm proud of in my work--it's not that I draw better; there's so many better graphic artists than me--or that I write better, no. It's--and I'm not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.

So, yeah—I suppose I've done some bad things in my life. But I just can't see myself as a fucking pornographer.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981. Section 5, Grave 40-2, Arlington National Cemetery.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981.

I'd like to be known just as a good worker in the vineyard who held his own and contributed generally to the advancement of the law." Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, 1970–1994, author of the Roe v. Wade decision. Section 5, Lot 40-4, Map Grid V/W-36, Arlington National Cemetery.

To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.

We can't take that step. It's illegal, and more importantly it's bad business.

To slur and sully, to belittle and drag down—that was what the world always tried to do.

At my age, a man husbands his resources. He says nothing that he does not really mean.

Ah, but Marcella knew quite well, boasted even, that she never would or could love any man.

She said she had selected me because she knew me to be honest, sober, and capable, and no stranger to Oxford.

Besides, most of the fellows that are ridin' long and sleepin' short, they have been drove out of society by the meanness of other men, and not because they wanted to go wrong.

Shame's a powerful weapon, but it depended on everyone else doing the right thing.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naïve and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. To see Uncle Sam going back on his word, revoking people's private lives, revoking their freedom…

We were taught since birth to bear the burden of our grandfathers' shame. We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.