Quotes About Integrity

There are two races of men in this world, but only these two—the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man.

Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. We had to strive to lead them back to this truth.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

Sé dueño de tu voluntad y siervo de tu conciencia»

El ateo preferiría que se fuera honesto por uno mismo, por el bien de otro o por la bondad intrínseca de la cosa, y no para ir al cielo.

Nationality?

wouldn't it be easier to just do a competent job than to spend all your time covering your ass?

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them to do when they

Anyone with honor and integrity was worn down and spit out by the political machine of party politics.

Jack, what do you think?

when a man blends truth and falsehood skillfully in one comprehensive statement, it is difficult to tell the veracities from the fibs.

The noblest motive is the public good.

Fear reveals baseborn souls!

The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades, the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night, before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Hic pietatis honos?

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people...Think of things in themselves.

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.

The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man.