Quotes About Integrity

Be careful of what you say, Feenah. Sophia is the female I love. If you were a male I would have to challenge you for talking about her in that manner." Sophie's

A true king never robs his people of peace.

In those days, and still now, I had a lot of women friends -- mostly in the black swan category-- who ignored convention and things society expected women to be, but didn't fuck your boyfriend, no matter what. Fucking people's husbands is for people from Ivy League colleges who read too much John O'Hara.

You know you're doing the right thing if you don't have to tap-dance.

But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent - and I guess some people never were.

where I grew up we believed there was such a thing as selling out and that those interested in the arts shouldn't do it.

The trick has been to live in the contradictions while maintaining principles, beliefs, and purpose.

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms." SCAN

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

Che l'«uomo economico» non esista, fu anche il punto di vista di Mussolini, che ad esso contrappose l'«uomo integrale» (1933); e la sua idea era che «la politica ha dominato e sempre dominerà l'economia», in

A wise person once said, "Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song ' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men; and even if they are clever at their job, if one employ such inferior characters in state and family business the tilled fields will go rack swamp and ruin and edged calamities will mount up to the full.... This is the meaning of: A state does not profit by profits - Pound's translation of Confucius

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.