Quotes About Integrity

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

Error has never approached my spirit.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.