Quotes About Integrity

loyalty is earned, my dear, not commanded.

The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.

Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler

If I was a nobody you wouldn't be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me. - Magda Searus

Rational moral choices are based on the value of life, not a consensus. A consensus can't make the sun rise at midnight, nor can it change a wrong into a right, or the other way around. If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand other men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

made me think I could stop him from saying something to Matt Fenton. I told him that if I ever found out that he had breathed

Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who always represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler

Don't lay a cloak of guilt around my shoulders because others are evil.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...

I'm trying to stop lying to myself about little things. I'm still working on the big ones.

At some point, we need to be honest with ourselves and do what excites us instead of what looks good on paper.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn't do good for people, she did right by them.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed .

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool.