Quotes About Integrity

The answer is, nothing's going to happen to you. The friend who called, he put in a good word.' 'Oh, yeah?' 'Jail will not make an impression on this woman. Don't waste your time.' That's a quote.

Nobody with a living brain cell goes into the newspaper business for the money. They're in it because digging up the truth is interesting and consequential work, and for sheer entertainment it beats the hell out of humping product for GE or Microsoft.

Since becoming chief, he'd also been well served by an uncommon immunity to condescension.

Wahoo's father had absolutely no use for creeps who beat on small animals, especially kids.

I'm not a religious person,' Skink continued, 'but stealing a preacher's car is a slime-dog move, even by the gutter standards of today's common criminal.

Killian won't go for it. The mother won't go for it. Hell, Davey, I've got no morals whatsoever, and I wouldn't go for it! It's the worst goddamn thing I ever heard.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?

If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: "He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.

Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons understood the dilemma better: It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

T. H. Huxley's formulation was The foundation of morality is to … give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

All of us long for a competent, uncorrupt, charismtatic leader. We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good.

Tom Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?

Uma marca infalível do amor à verdade", escreveu John Locke em 1690, "é não considerar nenhuma proposição com uma convicção maior do que a autorizada pelas provas em que se fundamenta.

He wants it both ways—the language and credibility of science, but without being bound by its method and rules.

todo gobierno se degenera cuando se deja solos a los gobernantes, porque éstos -por el mero hecho de gobernar- hacen mal uso de la confianza pública.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Princess, the age of some people can only be calculated by the level of - level of - rot in them.

I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly critical

This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself.

It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.

There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.