Quotes About Integrity

I think that money it is the goal of cowards. Money is what you end up wanting if you don't have putz enough to stand up and decide for yourself. Money is what they want you to want so that you will work for them every day of your life and buy what they sell and fill your house and your soul with their junk. It is for those without the courage to decide for themselves.

Veritas, it's called. Don't you love it when

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do. I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

A man will be known by his books.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Your mother and sister weren't on the radio telling us all to be brave. Look, I don't expect composers and poets to be heroes. I just don't like hypocrites.

Everyone is equally responsible for the shit they bring into the world.

When anything and everything goes, there are no real values, no definite right and wrong.

I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

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.