Quotes About Integrity

powerful, brave, loving mother, a woman of integrity and courage.

We have a strong moral system here, based on family values.

You can't lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you

the community, and respected. She

concern. She was serious and responsible

never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and that it conformed to his principles as well, before he did it.

I think you pay a price for taking the easy way out.

Who steals an egg would steal a cow." She believed it, and applied it to their vineyard manager regularly.

They had all chosen their paths and paid their dues by then, some more than others. Ted and Seth had both given up their dreams to please their parents. She and Claudia had never sold out, or given up who they were.

people he writes about demand respect, they have boundaries, most of the characters don't take crap from anyone. The ones who do always take it on the chin and have to learn the lesson.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

Destruction and humiliation didn't matter. Only memory and integrity did. Was the hour I was living through right now different from the hour they were living through then? Did it matter? From what hour does one recite the evening Sh'ma?

It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that's not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends. . . . Or maybe I've had it wrong all along. Since friendships usually outlast relationships, why shouldn't friends receive preferential treatment? Because you don't sleep with your friends!

the secret ballot was introduced and moves were made to eliminate corrupt electoral practices such as "treating" (essentially buying votes in exchange for which the voter received a treat, usually money, food, or alcohol). The

There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad –por desagradable que ésta pueda ser— a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa.

The easy way is not always the right way.

Some things in this world should be unacceptable no matter what. Sometimes you shouldn't allow people to grey your vision, to make you stop seeing an atrocity in simple black and white terms.

Crooked, grasping, evil-hearted people were easy to find. Honest, concerned, self-sacrificing people were harder to come by.

Now I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there'd be no sense to it. That's the fix I am in. I don't know anything else, don't enjoy anything else, don't want to know or enjoy anything else. You can't weight that against any sum of money. Money's good stuff. I haven't anything against it.

I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you.