Quotes About Integrity

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Booker T. Washington