Quotes About Integrity

All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

Obama is so crooked it is a wonder he can walk straight.

Barack confessed that "during the course of campaigning" "sometimes you lose" your "core truthfulness" and "it becomes a performance

It seems that part of the moral constitution of a doctor is a commitment not to intend the death of a patient, and to protect them from harm.

What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here. They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves, and I realized that using anyone's tragedy for political gain was cowardly.

If a man sees an evil, let him change it with his hand. If he cannot, then with his tongue. If he cannot, then with his heart, but this is the weakest faith.

Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they've sold out, and the more you're acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it's like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that's what they imagine.

Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.

You do know what the campaign against you is all about, don't you? Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they've sold out,

She spoke the truth or said nothing at all,

You either have a useful contribution to make or you don't, regardless of whether you're head of the office or the emperor of China.

The truth is of course a difficult discipline for us. Not only do we have to discover it. We've also got to handle it in the right way. It's enough to wear you down, isn't it?

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.

was unworthy, almost dishonest, to put a number on somebody's capacities.

Cu ce te ajut? s? stai ?i s? strigi "idio?ilor, pro?tilor, ne u niciun pericol", când to?i ceilal?i fug s?-?i salveze via?a?

What does it take to turn the hero into a villain?

I might want to be critical, but I don't wish to be destructive.

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.

One thing I learned on my sporadic spiritual journey was that mainstream culture's disdain and disrespect for the intellectual integrity of Christianity is unwarranted, and its conceited assumption that Christian beliefs are a product of blind faith, bereft of reason and intellect, is completely false.

David [Foster Wallace] is a Cosmopolitan subscriber; he says reading 'I've Cheated - Should I Tell?' a bunch of times a year is 'fundamentally soothing to the nervous system.

I did it, Mrs. Maycott, because I am a patriot, and if a man loves his country he must uphold the principles of that country even if doing so may make him uncomfortable in his own heart and odious to his neighbors.