Quotes About Integrity

We are not just AWOLS! We are not just parts! We are whole human beings-and history will look back on these times in shame!

That's right, pick on Emby, says Connor. Show everyone just how low you are.

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

But what if your mind becomes a pathological liar?

B)ut when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

Don't tell Roland," he says. "The only reason he's being so nice to the two of you is because he believes in the sanctity of the nuclear family.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.

And so, I have no one but myself to blame when the scythedom befouls the things I have worked for.

As scythes, it is not what we want that matters—all that matters is what the world needs us to be. As your High Blade, I will hold us to the highest ideals, so that we can be proud of who, and what, we are.

It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.

WFor to put oneself above the law is a fundamental recipe for disaster.

Those who wish to have the job should not have it… and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

I'm decent to everyone, Rowan pointed out. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a decent person.

I won't steal from her. I would never hurt one person's chances to help another—even if that other person was someone I cared about.

Sometimes justice needs obstructing when it ain't just.

Either someone with no conscience at all, or someone with a conscience so deep and sturdy that its center could still hold in the face of light extinguished.

We're not all evil, the man says. Neither are we,, Jeevan responds.

Never lose your humanity," Scythe Faraday had told him, "or you'll be nothing more than a killing machine." He had used the word "killing" rather than "gleaning." Rowan hadn't thought much of it at the time, but now he understood; it stopped being gleaning the moment one became desensitized to the act.

But my pain must not prevent me from doing the right thing.

The way Miracolina sees it, if someone would rather blow themselves up than be tithed, well, that's like stealing from the collection plate, isn't it? It's just plain wrong.

People who spread rumors...like lies better than they like the truth. Don't trust anyone who spreads rumors.

Even the tiniest loose thread in the fabric of your world cannot be tolerated. Either everyting works, or nothing does

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The artist, the true artist, the true poet, should paint only in accordance with what he sees or feels. He must be really faithful to his own nature. He must avoid, like death itself, the temptation of borrowing the eyes or feelings of another man, however great, for in that case the production he gave us would be a pack of lies, relatively to himself, not realities.