Quotes About Integrity

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

Most of us do not think of ourselves as criminals, but possibly there are things in our daily lives which we regard as our "inheritance" which will move future generations to critical disgust.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Every Senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave... This chamber reeks of blood... it does not take any courage at all for a Congressman or a Senator or a President to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Viet Nam, because it is not our blood that is being shed.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Well it looks like the road to heaven But it feels like the road to hell When I knew which side my bread was buttered I took the knife as well Posing for another picture Everybody's got to sell But when you shake your ass They notice fast And some mistakes were built to last.

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

Si la hipocresía es la distancia que hay entre nuestros principios y nuestro comportamiento, es muy fácil no ser nunca un hipócrita; basta con no tener ningún principio.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.

Aun los mejores hombres, si actúan por sí mismos, cometerán graves equivocaciones. Mientras mayores responsabilidades se coloquen sobre el agente humano, mientras más encumbrado sea su cargo para determinar y controlar, más males hará con seguridad pervirtiendo mentes y corazones si no sigue cuidadosamente el camino del Señor.