Quotes About Integrity

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

cómo puedes vivir con tu conciencia? —Es relativamente fácil. Simplemente, a veces no voto según mis convicciones, eso es todo. —Hank

A medida que crezcas, verás a los blancos estafando a los negros, todos los días de tu vida, pero te diré una cosa, y no la olvides: siempre que un hombre blanco abusa de un negro, no importa quién sea, ni cuán rico sea, ni cuán distinguida haya sido la familia de que procede, ese hombre blanco es basura.

Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!

not long ago, Atticus would have done it simply from his goodness, he would have done it for Cal.

You are using frightful means to justify ends that you think are for the good of the most people. Your ends may well be right—I think I believe in the same ends—but you cannot use people as your pawns, Atticus. You cannot.

Los hombres tienen tendencia a clasificar su honradez por casilleros, Jean Louise. Pueden ser perfectamente honestos en ciertos aspectos y engañarse a sí mismos en otros.

Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.

I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.

Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . . ." "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.

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of oh, of your father

ÇoÄŸunluÄŸa baÄŸl? olmayan tek ÅŸey insan?n vicdan?d?r.

Everyman's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such things as a collective conscious. / You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings - I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us. ?Go Set a Watchman?

Integrity, humor and patience were the three words for Atticus Finch. There was also a phrase for him: pick at random any citizen from Maycomb County and its environs, and ask him what he thought of Atticus Finch, and the answer would most likely be, I never had a better friend.

Oni, naravno, imaju pravo da tako misle i zaslužuju poštovanje zbog svojih stajališta," rekao je Atticus, "ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram mo?i živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovanjem ve?ine.

What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk, he wouldn't be as hard as some men at their best. There are just some kind of me who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me -- these same, these very people. So it's me, it's not them. Something has happened to me.

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 good one, even if it does resist learning.

I would lead him through the house, but I would never lead him home

Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on. H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.

You can shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them. But remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

You must have lived it. If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure you will not be caught out by him again. But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing.

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