Quotes About Integrity

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good." "And

But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole.

Kötü kiÅŸi, kötü eylemlerini keder etmeyen kimsedir.

I am not a bad person, he said. I am good person who has lived un a bad time.

We all choose things, and we all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against, but like Safran, and like you, I discover myself choosing this time and the next time what I am certain is good and correct, and against what I am certain is worthy. I choose that I will not, instead of that I will.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values —or betray them —lies in the food we put on our plates.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote passionately about the time when "one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular." Sometimes we simply have to make a decision because "one's conscience tells one that it is right.

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

me, not only because it seemed true, but because it was the extension to food of everything my parents had taught me. We don't hurt family members. We don't hurt friends or strangers. We don't even hurt upholstered furniture. My not having thought to include animals in that list didn't make them the exceptions to it.

Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some small birds he saw in distress. When chided by the others, he responded, quite plainly, "I could not have slept to-night if I had left those poor creatures on the ground and not restored them to their mother.

To accept the factory farm —to feed the food it produces to my family, to support it with my money —would make me less myself

Shame] is the core experience of the ethical.

The moral strength of an army is impaired by every injustice, whether it personally touches an individual soldier or not. When Agamemnon wrongly seizes Achilles' prize of honor, he inflicts an injury not on just this one man but on this whole army.

How low an opinion I had of human wisdom and integrity, when I was truly informed of the springs and motives of great enterprises and revolutions in the world, and of the contemptible accidents to which they owed their success

I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

truth, justice, temperance, and

Este Sr. Nádegas, pai destes três, era um homem bem reputado, apesar de certos maliciosos afirmarem que ele tinha o hábito intestino de jogar fast and loose; e às vezes agoniava-se, o que se atribuía a ter sido mordido por uma tarântula. Tocar gaita-de-foles, de alguma forma, aliviava-o.

who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it. Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, till he has at least some glimpse of hope that there will be ever some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

delinease en un papel, Y aparecen en la figura de esta página. Le dije que, aunque en Europa los sabios tenían la costumbre de robarse los inventos unos a otros, y de este modo lograban cuando menos la ventaja de que se discutiese cuál era el verdadero autor, tomaría yo tales precauciones, que él solo disfrutase el honor íntegro, sin que viniera a mermárselo ningún rival.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me.

Estoy hablando de no vivir temblando ante la fantasía de ser rechazado por aquellos con los cuales no acuerdo. Estoy hablando, finalmente, del coraje de ser quien soy.

Si para estar con otro yo tengo que renunciar a ser yo mismo, la cosa no va a funcionar.