Quotes About Integrity

You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

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.

La coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.

There was no point to say you were sorry if you weren't.

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "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.

Chcia?em, ?eby? co? w niej dostrzeg?. ?eby? dostrzeg?, czym jest prawdziwa odwaga, i ?eby nigdy nie przysz?o ci do g?owy, ?e odwa?ny jest cz?owiek z pistoletem w r?ku. Odwa?ny jest ten, kto wie, ?e przegra, zanim jeszcze rozpocznie walk?, lecz mimo to zaczyna i prowadzi j? do ko?ca bez wzgl?du na wszystko.

I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco. was all Atticus said about it. According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him...Miss Stephanie said Atticus didn't bat an eye, just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr. Ewell call him names wild horses could not bring her to repeat.

wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.

can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Fine a boy as he is, the trash won't wash out of him.

satu hal yang tidak tunduk pada mayoritas adalah nurani seseorang

don't see why you touched it in the first place," Mr. Link Deas was saying. "You've got everything to lose from this, Atticus. I mean everything.

Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening. "Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.

Y Atticus le dijo un día a Jem: - Preferiría que disparaseis contra botes vacíos en el patio trasero, pero sé que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Matad todos los arrendajos azules que queráis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado (p.136)

pero se que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Mata a todos los arrendajos azules que queréis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado.

Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovima ve?ine.

the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right—

Atticus took his career in his hands, made good use of a careless indictment, took his stand before a jury, and accomplished what was never before or afterwards done in Maycomb County: he won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge. The chief witness for the prosecution was a white girl.

Prima di vivere con gli altri, bisogna che viva con me stesso: la coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.

Before Jem looks at anyone else, he looks at me, and I have tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. If I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him.

Ustedes saben la verdad, y la verdad es que algunos negros mienten, algunos negros son inmorales, algunos negros no merecen la confianza de estar cerca de las mujeres... blancas o negras. Pero ésta es una verdad que se aplica a toda la especie humana y no a una raza particular de hombres.

Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

Atticus was saying, "With people like us—that's our share of the bill. We generally get the juries we deserve. Our stout Maycomb citizens aren't interested, in the first place. In the second place, they're afraid. Then

It ain't honest but it's mighty helpful to folks...but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.