Quotes About Integrity

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment prevent nuclear proliferation force crooked politicians out of office reduce poverty provide quality health care for all people and even to save the lives of millions of people as it did in Ethiopia in 1984. But instead we are using it to promote sex violence and sensationalism and to line the pockets of already wealthy media moguls.' Dr Carl Jensen founder of Project Censored

If the journalist is secretly the tool of some invisible public relations machine or vested commercial interest it is the public whose interest is betrayed

While compromising may be the name of the game in the world of business, in this candy land we call love, it is not compromising your standards and remembering what you really want and deserve that will ultimately win the day.

Great men are not made by propaganda, but grow out of their actions

My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

One more Socially Responsible cheep out of you, doggy, and it's back in the workbag for the rest of the afternoon.

I wouldn't join you if you were coming apart at the seams.

Bad Men Do What Good Men

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring. -Inspector John Rebus

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

Soms is een gedachte dichter bij de waarheid, bij de werkelijkheid, dan een handeling. Je kunt alles zeggen, je kunt alles doen, maar een gedachte kun je niet veinzen.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France," Truxtun wrote Stoddert. "If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves." The

That was the tribute written to twenty-year-old Chester W. Nimitz by the editors of the Lucky Bag, the Naval Academy yearbook of 1905. The quote, from Wordsworth's Excursion, was apt: it got at Nimitz's qualities of serenity, humility, and good-fellowship. He had a pleasant face and an easy manner. He was comfortable in his own skin. He was one of those rare souls who managed to be both supremely confident and genuinely modest.

Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of the Christopher Beeston who had acted with Shakespeare's company. The partly cancelled note reads: 'the more to be admired, he was not a company keeper. [He] ... wouldn't be debauched, and if invited to, writ [i.e. wrote] he was in pain.' [Ch.24]

Sometimes it sucks, being good, because if you make a mistake then everybody makes a mistake and if something goes wrong it's your fault, it falls on your shoulders.

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

Never mumble some sarcastic shit to somebody who can obviously fuck you up.

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.