Quotes About Integrity

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me—no good.

Good ends, as I have frequently to point out, can be achieved only by the employment of appropriate means. The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight.

Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.

As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice! Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve.

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.

And yet our personal experience and the study of history make it abundantly clear that the means whereby we try to achieve something are at least as important as the end we wish to attain. Indeed they are even more important. For the means employed inevitably determine the nature of the result achieved; whereas, however good the end aimed at may be, its goodness is powerless to counteract the effects of the bad means we use to reach it.

It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are.

Radije ?u ostati ono što jesam,a ne netko drugi,ma koliko on veseo bio.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." "A

Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.

good she had been. Not nice, not merely molto simpatico – how charmingly and effectively these foreign tags assist one in calling a spade by some other name! – but good. You felt the active radiance of her goodness when you were near her…. And that feeling, was that less real and valid than two plus two?

For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity—St. Paul.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves.

I'd rather be myself...Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Cuanto mayores son los talentos de un hombre más grande es su poder de corromper a los demás.

Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

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