Quotes About Integrity

A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. T

do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.

We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.

Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;

Rather than Love, rather than Money, than Faith, than Fame, than Fairness, give me Truth.

Ä°lkeli eylemler, hakk?n idraki ve icras?, ÅŸeyleri ve iliÅŸkileri deÄŸiÅŸtirir; bu da özünde devrimci bir davran??t?r ve yaln?zca geçmiÅŸte de devrimci olan ÅŸeylerden ibaret deÄŸildir. Devletleri ve kiliseleri bölmekle kalmaz, aileleri de böler; evet, içindeki ÅŸeytani yan? kutsal olandan ay?rarak bireyi de böler.

there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

Don Juan : [...] Les voilà, mes spectres, les spectres de ce que je ne suis pas. Ce sont eux qui me persécutent et m'écoeurent, et qui me survivront. Ils vivront, car il sont le mensonge. Mais si je dois payer ma vie au prix de toutes les sottises et de tous les mensonges qu'on aura dits sur moi, peut-être vaudrait-il mieux n'avoir pas vécu. Je vais changer d'habit et mettre mon beau costume. Il faut être bien vêtu quand on va être arrêté.

To say the Truth, I have often concluded, that the honest Part of Mankind would be much too hard for the knavish, if they could bring themselves to incur the Guilt, or thought it worth their while to take the Trouble.

I had now regained my liberty, said the stranger; but I had lost my reputation; for there is a wide difference between the case of a man who is barely acquitted of a crime in a court of justice, and of him who is acquitted in his own heart, and in the opinion of the people.

a proof that good books, no more than good men, do always survive the bad.

The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable. And

as you are resolved to fall in battle if you can, so I am resolved as firmly to come to no hurt if I can help

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us

Examinar los problemas en su integridad y no fragmentariamente: tal es la meta de la ciencia económica.

Laméntase a menudo que los demagogos logren mayor asenso al exponer públicamente sus despropósitos económicos que los hombres de bien al denunciar sus fallos.

La política que propugne dependerá de la postura particular que se adopte en cada momento. Porque cada cual es unas veces el Dr. Jekyll y otras Mr. Hyde.

since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one would have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.

I don't talk for your amusement.

THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!

Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.