Quotes About Integrity

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.

We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.

There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.

La verdad científica está más allá de toda lealtad y deslealtad.

Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.

Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing.

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.

Nunca permitas que el sentido de la moral te impida hacer lo que está bien!

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.

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.

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Because it is not wise to trust one's self overmuch. We naturally see our virtues with clearer eyes than we see our defects. We are anxious to do what is right; not necessarily what seems right to us, but what is right, objectively, if such a thing as objective right exists.

the mere act of not being a traitor is also a long way from agreeing to be an active helper.

Ez a maga dolga, nem? Mivégre tettem meg magát akkor köznevelésügyi és propagandaminiszternek? – Nyilván, hogy idÅ' elÅ'tt nyomorultul a sírba tegyen, amennyi segítséget kapok magától.

It's almost not necessary for us to do good. It's only necessary for us to stop doing evil, for goodness sake.

La verdad científica está por encima de la lealtad y la deslealtad.

You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

I despise envy on principle and I feel only contempt for those who fall prey to it; so I never let myself feel it, you see, unless I can call it something else.