Quotes About Integrity

True idealists, in contrast, care about the welfare of others above and especially against their own interests. If you enjoy your work or profit from it, how can you be sure you're truly doing it for others and not yourself?

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Îmi tot spun mereu c? am pu?ine sentimente. Dac? pun ceva la inim?, e doar pe jum?tate. Nu plâng aproape niciodat?. Nu-s mai puternic decât cei cu ochii umezi, ci mai slab. Ei au îndr?zneala. Când ai ajuns doar piele ?i oase, e curajos s? ai sentimente.

Quando a gente é aquilo que finge ser, é castigada por isso, é como se fosse uma lei.

The 16 characteristics of psychopaths: 1. Intelligent 2. Rational 3. Calm 4. Unreliable 5. Insincere 6. Without shame or remorse 7. Having poor judgment 8. Without capacity for love 9. Unemotional 10. Poor insight 11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others 12. Overreactive to alcohol 13. Suicidal 14. Impersonal sex life 15. Lacking long-term goals 16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

The half is greater than the whole.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's thoughtful Nobles," the left hand jeered.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

I never thought honor would feel like betrayal.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

Damn it all, Cromwell, why are you such a . . . person? It isn't as if you could afford to be.

They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.

A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.