Quotes About Integrity

On land ethic: A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends to do otherwise.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Los hombres nobles eluden un esfuerzo realizando otro mucho mayor. Por no arrancar una rosa, construyen un palacio. Por no escuchar un reproche, ejercen la rectitud toda la vida. Por no bajarse del caballo, conquistan el Asia.

Conserva tu dignidad. Si un perro te muerde, no muerdas al perro.

We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on.

George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Lascian poi alle volte le cose più imbrogliate di prima. Quelli che fanno il bene, lo fanno all'ingrosso: quand'hanno provata quella soddisfazione, n'hanno abbastanza e non si viglion seccare a star dietro a tutte le conseguenze: ma coloro che hanno quel gusto di fare il male, ci mettono più diligenza, ci stanno dietro fino alla fine, non prendono mai requie, perché hanno qualche canchero che li rode.

No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

No sabíais que si el hombre promete demasiado a menudo más de lo que puede mantener, también amenaza no menos a menudo, más de lo que se atreve luego a cumplir?

He had a favorite sentence which he always used to conclude his harangues on such matters: No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge.

Dite: io non vorrei altro che trovarvi senza colpa.

Non sapevate che, se l'uomo promette troppo spesso più che non sia per mantenere, minaccia anche non di rado, più che non s'attenti poi di commettere? Non sapevate che l'iniquità non si fonda soltanto sulle sue forze, ma anche sulla credulità e sullo spavento altrui?

V'ha detto che i doveri annessi al ministero fossero liberi da ogni ostacolo, immuni da ogni pericolo? O v'ha detto forse che dove cominciasse il pericolo, ivi cesserebbe il dovere? O non v'ha espressamente detto il contrario?