Quotes About Integrity

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. So we can believe the big ones? YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

It's hard to explain, said Brutha. But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like core values at him with impunity.

There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Taint what a horse looks like, it's what a horse be.

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Everybody does it! Quirke burst out. It's perks ! Everybody? said Vimes. He looked around at the squad. Anyone else here take bribes? His glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronized Observation Team.

There will be justice, said Brutha. If there is no justice, there is nothing.

I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...

People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.

Nobby would nick anything and dodge anything, but he wasn't bad. You could trust him with your life, although you'd be daft to trust him with a dollar.

Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference.