Quotes About Integrity

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

I've had Christians treat me in a way that is so wrong and so vicious, I realized there's a difference between God's people and God.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's any karma for that.

You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.

Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

People will throw stones and hide their hands and then get back and play victim.

We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.

If you can't take the heat, don't be on that street... I get abused every day, and I don't cry on anybody's shoulder. I don't play the victim card. I get abused, threatened - not only on Twitter but off it, also.

I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

I don't do the victim mode. I don't do blame. I can't bear that.

I am fighting because of my innocence. I am fighting because I am a victim. I am not a doper.

The test for honest Americans or honest liberals is, are they going to defend a president they disagree with when he's being victimized.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

I try and make myself or consenting people I am very close to the victims of my comedy. I don't enjoy bullying masquerading as comedy.

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.

We need a feminist movement that is robust enough to survive women who have preyed on others without trying to justify their behavior or maligning their victims.

My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than a father. You didn't lie or cheat with him. I would never have defied my father.

There are no moral victories.

I've long been offended by not-so-godly pro football players I've known who showed up for pregame chapel - Sunday-only Christians rubbing the proverbial rabbit's foot - then after victories declared it was 'God's will' that their team won.