Quotes About Integrity

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

You can afford to be compassionate, lax, and courteous if, once in a while, when it is least expected of you, but completely justified, you sue someone, or savage an enemy, just to show that you can walk the walk.

never trust the words of a man who is not free.

Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is "good for you" while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn't directly affect him.

Scars signal skin in the game.

it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.

When you walk the walk, whether successful or not, you feel more indifferent and robust to people's opinion, freer, more real.

First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently , for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

Silver Rule (negative golden rule): Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Note the difference from the Golden Rule, as the silver one prevents busybodies from attempting to run your life.

It is much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences.

At the end, what matters is the strength of the string—not the wealth and power of the dining party.

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

Robust is when you care more about the few who like your work than the multitude who dislike it (artists); fragile when you care more about the few who dislike your work than the multitude who like it (politicians).

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.

somehow it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse.

An honest person will never commit criminal acts, but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors—though never the same error more than once—is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in

Do not pay attention to what people say, only to what they do, and how much of their necks they are putting on the line.