Quotes About Integrity

Doing the right thing for everyone eventually makes other people hate you. I want to be free to make a fool of myself.

A judge without impartiality is like a priest without faith. Good faith in the judicial system is underscored by a belief in impartiality.

He had learned that sometimes there was no safe path, no decision from which one could emerge unscathed. In those cases, he had been taught to take the path of honor, even if it led to pain or death

Good questions can initiate a surprising wend toward an answer that is neither right nor wrong, but that can be judged as strong or weak or honest or dishonest on the basis of the steps that brought the answerer there. It is a built thing. Sometimes what it builds is bullshit, but the bullshit can be so well-constructed that it has integrity, a pattern integrity. This can be worth admiring.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

Hitler's ability to keep a secret was unparalleled.

judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.

For the Nazi "war against hybridity" was not waged "against the European grain" at all. Though Hitler certainly pushed it to the limit, ethnic homogeneity as supposed political "coherence" and psychological "integrity" was an idea shared by very many people in European countries east, south, west and north.

There is only one terminal dignity -- love.

It's better to have no secrets. Lies are always harder to manage than the truth.

Just because I'm painfully honest does not mean I'm right.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

While Lucretia [Mott]'s public life was inspirational, I also want to to discuss her private life: her quiet actions. I agree with Lucretia's ethic that private acts of integrity are the foundation of a more just and more equitable society. She taught us that small moments of love in action can add up to potent agents of change.

This love in action, the commitment to right relationship and integrity, is essential to the success of any professed sociopolitical agenda.

head. "You will not tell?" She shook her head again. "But how else can we believe you? You mean you are willing to be shot as a spy rather than give his name?" "Would his name

When you are faced with food that has been sterilized, fumigated, hydrogenated, hydrolyzed, homogenized, colored, bleached, puffed, exploded, defatted, degermed, texturized, or if you don't know what has been done to it, the safest rule is not to eat it.

Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.

she was herself entire, and knew she could not be consumed.

Handmade and heartfelt; Harriet wanted everything she did to be like this.

lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another

I told Cambridge that I'd read it and now I've got to make it true.

I was always a little disturbed by him because I'd never heard him tell a lie. That was horrifying to me, like living in a house with every door and window wide open all day long.

If someone threatens to kill you for speaking up about something they've done, they must be feeling their guilt. So maybe that's how you know you're on the right track.