Quotes About Integrity

I'm a guy like this, Gino explained to Jeanie; I like anythin' against the odds. I don't like nothin' safe. I'm a guy like this too: I don't like gettin' caught. But mostly I'm a guy like this: I don't like gettin' laughed at.     He lived as he drove, as he gambled and as he loved: for keeps. Taking no man's laughter. And letting the small stakes go.

Detective Ramos confided in me, 'If something happens to you on my watch my ass is O-U-T.' 'How do you think I'd feel? D-E-A-D.

Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do.

On the other hand, as every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

Amicitia sine fraude—to friendship without deceit.

Anyway, I'm getting really intolerant of liars, fools, blowhards, and power freaks.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are more.

My problem is with supervisors who bullshit me and expect loyalty in return. The essence of loyalty is reciprocity. If you're loyal to me, I'll be loyal to you. Bullshit me, and I'll bullshit you. That's the contract.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

When you cheat at poker, life, or taxes, you've taken the honor and fun out of winning, and ultimately you've cheated yourself out of the finest pleasure in life: beating the other guy fair and square. That's what I was taught in school.

Joe Smith had a Russian knocking on his door asking to be put up on the sly, Joe would be on the horn to the FBI in a flash. Joe does that because he thinks it's right, not because he thinks the FBI will torture him if he doesn't.

And so to seem like a regular guy and a good hire, I said, quoting Uncle Harry, "Whatever is not a crime is a business.

every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

When you're dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don't always get the logical results you expect, or the truth that you paid for.

He could be an officer without worrying about being a gentleman.

Well, aside from money, you have what I call dick crimes. Dicks get you in trouble.

early to bed, early to rise, makes a man sneaky and full of lies.

Hoje é muito difícil não ser canalha. Todas as pressões trabalham para o nosso aviltamento pessoal e coletivo.

He is a good man, and will climb up to the Six Blissful Seats. He has known sin and trouble and it has not made him bitter; he has known sorrow and it has not made him sad. In these last months that have been granted to him he is trying to do good, not

for any fight to be successful, impunity had to be reined in.

Actions that help build trusted networks serve your cause

A man who wishes to profess at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them.