Quotes About Integrity

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Forsyth

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Even a well-founded suspicion more or less degrades a man. His suspicion may be verified, and he may escape some material harm by having cherished the suspicion. But he is unavoidably the worse man in consequence of having entertained it.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

prayer makes us more sensitive to the manifestations of institutionalized lies.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

A crow is no whiter for being washed.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

Die Partei weiß genau, daß sie nur jene zu fürchten hat, welche die Ideale ernst nehmen, die sie zu verkörpern vorgibt.

Der Schiksal der Menschen wird davon abhängen, ob sich die Politik endlich bequemt, das Leben eines jeden heilig zu nehmen, oder ob die Hure weiterhin für jene auf die Straße geht, denen nichts heilig ist. Die Dame muß sich entscheiden.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.