Quotes About Integrity

Something about Linus made me feel at ease. You knew that he was sincere and whatever he told you wouldn't be a lie.

You shouldn't give up what you are to make somebody else happy." "I decide what makes me happy!" She jumped off the bed and stomped off. "If it feels wrong, it probably is.

We're a family business. All we have is our name and our reputation. We follow only three rules. First, once bought, we stay loyal to the client. Second, we try not to do anything illegal. And third, at the end of the day we have to be able to look our reflection in the eye.

She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.

Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one.

Because killing random people just because they did something you don't like makes you the bad guy.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

He shook his head. "Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one." "How do you decide what is a 'small' wrong? Let's say, you buy the safety of many with the life of a child. That child means everything to her parents. You devastated them. There is no greater wrong you can

You can't smelt happiness out of a lie. The world doesn't work that way.

The point of having a castle isn't hiding inside its walls; it's being worthy of it.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.

What does it avail, one will say, that this man has so much talent, that he is so active therewith, and that he exerts thereby a useful influence over the community, thus having a great worth both in relation to his own happy condition and to the benefit of others, if he does not possess a good will?

Now I say: man and generally any rational being exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means to be arbitrarily used by this or that will, but in all his actions, whether they concern himself or other rational beings, must always be regarded at the same time as an end.

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.