Quotes About Integrity

La norma ética nos prohíbe ver a los hombres como medios y al Hombre como fin.

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

Resistance is futile when everything in the world is conspiring to destroy what we admire. We are always left, however, with an incorruptible soul, so that we might contemplate, judge, and disdain.

Though he knows he cannot win, the reactionary has no desire to lie.

Die Wahrheit des Menschen ist nichts weiter als eine aufrichtige Überzeugung. Wahrheit ist, was wir als Wahrheit beurteilen, nachdem wir die Gründe erwogen, die Argumente bedacht und unsere Überzeugung auf das breiteste Fundament der Aufrichtigkeit und Ehrlichkeit gestellt haben. Die Wahrheit ist eine Tugend - wie die Blüte, die manchen harten und knorrigen moralischen Wurzeln entstammt. Vielleicht sollte man in der Logik lediglich ein Kapitel der Ethik sehen.

Authority is not delegating men, but procuring values.

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.

My truth is the sum of what I am, not a simple summary of what I think.

Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man.

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance "accepting life".

To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.

Die nationalistische Xenophobie bewahrt die Unversehrtheit köstlicher Speisen für die, die weder Nationalisten noch xenophob sind.

De muchas cosas me pueden culpar mis enemigos. Pero de dos, jamás: de ser ladrón o maricón"[40

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never reenter it once we are on the outside.

Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are

La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?