Quotes About Integrity

And there are those who would rather be behind evil than in front of it

The trouble is, you see, that if you do know Right from Wrong, you can't choose Wrong. You just can't do it and live.

There were people who'd steal money from people. Fair enough. That was just theft. But there were people who, with one easy word, would steal the humanity from people. That was something else.

The anger rose up, joyfully. 'Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

Best to get it off his chest. Own up like a man. Take his medicine. Cards on table. Beating about bush, none of. Mercy, throw himself on.

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

Sometimes Carrot sounded like a civics essay written by a stunned choirboy.

Pray you never face a good man, Vimes thought. He'll kill you with hardly a word.

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

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

the really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

People are what they do, and what they leave behind

No one likes a poor thief.

I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels.

Once you know that you have a voice," Louis said, "it's no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

I return to the wilderness to remember what I have forgotten, that the world can be wholesome and beautiful, that the harmony and integrity of ecosystems at peace is a mirror to what we have lost.

We are slowly returning to the hour of land where our human presence can take a side step and respect the integrity of the place itself - paying attention to its own historical and ecological character beyond our needs and desires. This kind of generosity of spirit requires an uncommon humility to listen to the land first.

Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue.

The erosion of democracy and decency feels like a widening crack on the face of liberty.

Wilderness ensures possibilities. Saving wilderness is about saving ourselves, as well as protecting the evolutionary integrity of all other life forms on the planet.

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

I hate it when a woman lets me down. Gives us all a bad name.