Quotes About Integrity

Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro.

obrar siempre de manera que podamos convertir la máxima de nuestra conducta en ley universal».

Christopher Hitchens

Cuanto peor es el infractor, más devoto resulta ser.

Very often in my experience, the extraneous or irrelevant complexities are inserted when a matter of elementary justice or principle is at issue.

By declining to lie, even as far as possible to himself, and by his determination to seek elusive but verifiable truth, he showed how much can be accomplished by an individual who unites the qualities of intellectual honesty and moral courage.

Orwell's] very ordinariness is the sterling guarantee that we need no saintly representative consciences. We would do better to make sterner use of our own.

People assert themselves out of an unquenchable sense of dignity.

Do not swallow your moral code in tablet form.

verdadero valor de un ser humano no viene determinado por su grado de posesión, supuesto o real, de la verdad, sino más bien por la honestidad de su esfuerzo en pos de alcanzarla. No es la posesión de la verdad, sino más bien la búsqueda de la misma, lo que ensancha su capacidad y donde puede hallarse su siempre creciente perfectibilidad. La posesión nos convierte en sujetos pasivos, indolentes y orgullosos.

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Christopher Hitchens

the strenuous and dogmatic is the moral enemy of the good.

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

The people most reluctant to use weapons are the ones who can best be trusted with them.

A life without truth is illogical. Surak wrote that the truth is simply the actual state of the universe. To live at odds with the truth is to be in conflict with reality itself. Such an existence is unsustainable.

Our dead deserve to be honored, Phlox." "But do we really honor them by using them as an excuse to add to their numbers?

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

What virtue is it that is born with us? Much less can honor be ascribed thereto, Honor is purchased by the deeds we do. Believe me, Hero, honor is not won, Until some honorable deed be done. ----From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad I

The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States.

Compliment but do not covet.

Jesus was a good guy, he didn't need this shit.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.