Quotes About Integrity

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.

I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig. ~Zeke

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not. Charles James's Diary

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice. But we will know what you have done. And in your heart, so will you. And that is more than heroic. It is noble.

No. I mean, if I were going by the book, I should have cited him, but sometimes you got to go by the spirit of the law. He fought for our country.

The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not.

Pour que le mal triomphe, il suffit que les gens bien ne fassent rien.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

A man cannot live his life by the calculations of retribution. I did what I had to do and hope the consequences are kind.

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

At last she said, "Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up. They're like a pack of hound dogs. They'll chase livestock, suck eggs, and lick the skillet. And steal? They'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.

What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that one has in fact done one of the things one could not have imagined doing, and finds that one is still alive. At that point, one's choices are suicide, a life of bottomless self-disgust, and an attempt to live so as never to do such a thing again. Dewey recommends the third choice.

State-regulated insurance companies, like the Equitable Life Insurance Company and the Prudential Life Insurance Company, also declared that their policy was not to issue mortgages to whites in integrated neighborhoods. State insurance regulators had no objection to this stance.

Ä°yi bir iÅŸin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri art?k örtüÅŸmüyordu.

Güçlü bir kamu yaÅŸam?n?n a??nmas?, içtenlikle ilgi duyulan mahrem iliÅŸkileri deforme etmektedir.

Hangi kötülüÄŸe tahammül edeceÄŸimiz hangi iyiliÄŸin peÅŸinde olduÄŸumuza baÄŸl?d?r.

I wouldn't kill your pony. I'd like to believe it, anyway. I'd like to believe I wouldn't drag you out in to the woods and leave you there, either. So far, it hasn't come up.

We are all just trying to be holy.

There's a part in the movie where you can see right through the acting, where you can tell that I'm about to burst into tears

A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.

leadership often means having to choose between two bad options and that good men have to make decisions that have bad consequences.

Just as pretending to be brave can become real courage, we may find that outfitting ourselves as the person we want to be brings us closer to becoming that person.