Quotes About Integrity

I want to be cut off from people like Marloe. Being a real person oneself is a matter of setting up limits and drawing lines and saying no. I don't want to be a nebulous bit of ectoplasm straying around in other people's lives. That sort of vague sympathy with everybody precludes any real understanding of anybody . . . And it precludes any real loyalty to anybody.

He had lived a chaste life really. It was his accusers and not his crimes which troubled him.

A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'll have to put up with it, and I know that later on I'll keep on wishing that I'd had the nerve to say no, even at the last minute....

I wonder if it's harder to be good in this age?

She must not be tempted by truthfulness, she must play the game out to the end.

How absolute the knave is!

We must keep this love uncontaminated even if we kill it.

To be good is just never to lose it. How does evil begin in a life? How can it begin? Yet we were there once.

There may be no God, but there's decency and - and there's truth and trying to stay there, I mean to stay in it, in its sort of light, and trying to do a good thing and to hold onto what you know to be a good thing even if it seems stupid when you come to do it.

Yes, and I'm ready to wade through blood for him, but there is no blood, only a false sickly slime — I can't live in fogs and falsehoods, I must live in the open, I must find my way out, I must find someone else, and I have found someone else.

politicians aren't concerned with justice being done, they're concerned with justice seeming to be done as a result of their keen-eyed vigilance.

Love, yes. But sometimes love must sacrifice itself in order to remain love.

Rents bir keresinde, polisin ve yarg?çlar?n görev duygusunu tetiklemek için esmer bi tenden daha iyisi yoktur, demiÅŸti; çok doÄŸru.

Prawdziwy d?entelmen nigdy nie d??y do wyruchania dziewczyny na pierwszej randce (chyba, ?e nie planuje drugiej).

Yo me hago daño y me saboteo a mí mismo para no hacer daño a nadie que no se lo merezca.

You can't lie to your soul.

If we jist be oorselves, n be honest, thill nivir gie either ay us the fuckin joab.

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value.

Nikada ne možete biti sigurni u nešto sve vreme. Možete imati samo odvažnosti i snage da u?inite ono što mislite da je pravo. Možda ?e se to kasnije pokazati kao neta?no, ali vi ste ga bar u?inili, a to je ono što je važno.

He doesn't drink." "Your boss," said Michael, "is a dangerous alien.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.