Quotes About Integrity

It is not, Ianthe, a priest's function to be a bottomless well of woolly uncritical forgiveness. That would only devalue virtue.

A book is your friend, and you don't break a friend's back.

There's no way I'm going to let a slang term invented by a scroungy dope dealer spoil my friend's cookie name.

We're gods, not saints. Everyone lies. Everyone cheats. Everyone scores off everyone else.

Desta vez, disse ele, vais para a Europa; vais cursar uma Universidade, provavelmente Coimbra; quero-te para homem sério e não para arruador e gatuno.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

Não tenhas ciúmes de tua mulher para que ela não se meta a enganar-te com a malícia que aprender de ti.

There was no denying that whores surrounded him. Not just the women on the flat screen, but the political whores who'd attended his meeting. He replayed his own conciliatory words and wondered whether he was one as well

Before Ryan's murder, she'd trusted the criminal justice system wholeheartedly. But that was before she'd almost lost everything she cherished. She couldn't face another attack on her integrity and professionalism without imperiling the fragile sanity she clung to like a life preserver

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.

But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

the universe wants from us is two things: don't do any intentional harm to yourself or anyone else, and get happy.

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.