Quotes About Integrity

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

Often to do what's right you first have to do what's wrong.

There was being a whore, and then there was just plain debasing yourself—but it had paid off.

Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.

Sometimes kindness is wiser than truth

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Do not become what you dispise.

Do not become what you despise.

For an octopus, its arms are partly self

Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

final resolvía la lucha del rey al transformarle del tipo de persona capaz de cabrear a su propia jauría en un guardián honrado del código fluvial, que sus descendientes respetarían a partir de ese momento.

I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they had tried to stay what they were. Not like me, who had never been anything, and so had been trying all my life to be someone else. To come inside. I saw that they understood this, too. That they understood it and that it was okay. That, even so, I mattered, come what may.

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

I'll come, you'll see,' I said. I knew it was a lie, she knew it, too.

There's not a single human being who doesn't find it a relief to be forced to tell the truth.

A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that surely puts us all to shame.

there was nothing really more important other than treating animals and people with decency and respect—

He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?

Satan's extortion is powerless without the addiction to a good public name.

In a Godless universe, what is the difference between doing unto others that we would wish them to do unto us, and merely appearing to do unto others that we would wish them to do unto us? The answer, alas, is that if there is no God who knows the secrets of our hearts, it is all too easy to appear to be good, and even to do formally good deeds, all of which are empty of real goodness.

If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

Don't make excuses for shitty people. You can't put a flower in an asshole and call it a vase.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits