Quotes About Integrity

We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man.

Integrity, humor, and patience were the three words for Atticus Finch.

The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does. So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take. He had to take it out on somebody and I'd rather it be me than that houseful of children out there.

I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Jem was a born hero.

I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. Wondering what bargain we had made, I turned to the class for an answer, but the class looked back at me in puzzlement.

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried.

I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that- it just makes me sick.

Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

To kill a mockingbird is a sin

We're the safest folks in the world, said Miss Maudie. We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us.

but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

in favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.

Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

every man's watchman, is his conscience.

a alguns homens que aldrabam as mulheres no dinheiro da mercearia não lhes passaria pela cabeça aldrabar o merceeiro. Os homens tendem a compartimentar a honestidade.

Some folks don't like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with 'em, I don't care if they don't like it. I do say I don't care if they don't like it, right enough - but I don't say the hell with 'em, see?

To the Richmond Leader in 1966 when the school board banned her novel: "Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that 'To Kill a Mockingbird' spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is 'immoral' has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.

I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?" "The way you tell it, it is.