Quotes About Integrity

Hay momentos en nuestra vida en que tenemos necesidad de ser canallas, de ensuciarnos hasta adentro, de hacer alguna infamia, yo qué sé..., de destrozar para siempre la vida de un hombre... y después de hecho eso podremos volver a caminar tranquilos.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.

Sobre el mercado editorial, bueno, yo creo que es una estafa: un montón de analfabetos funcionales comprando libros de algunos necios. Lo que hoy se entiende por literatura o por mercado editorial es una estafa disfrazada de intenciones políticamente correctas. No tiene nada que ver con la literatura.

con la franqueza característica de los soldados y de los caballeros que saben reconocer una obra de arte cuando la ven, aunque no la entiendan.

Sólo la poesía no está contaminada, sólo la poesía está fuera del negocio. No sé si me entiende, maestro. Sólo la poesía, y no toda, eso que quede claro, es alimento sano y no mierda.

La mala educación era para él sinónimo de franqueza y hasta honestidad.

I who have nothing may have nothing, but I'll always have something that you don't. And that's respect.

Muy distinto es no decir lo que se piensa que no pensar lo que se dice.

I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

Lying is for the weak-minded. If you can't think of a truthful way to solve your problems, you're not thinking hard enough.

I think the only test in life should be, are you a nice person or a mean one?

Cheating on research is as bad as cheating on patient care. No! It's worse. In research you can end up hurting many more people.

I do not wish integrity to be taken in some vague metaphorical sense; I mean it quite literally.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... thing.' I shook my head. 'Words don't read that far.

My mother had told me to never be afraid to apologize when I was wrong. She had said it would have saved her and my father a great deal of trouble if they had only followed that rule. Then she had sighed, and added that I must never think that an apology could completely erase what I had done or said. Still, it was worth trying.

It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.

We are whole

You are not a man as ordinary men are. They think they have a right to all beasts; to hunt them and eat them, or to subjugate them and rule their lives. You know you have no such right to mastery. The horse that carries you will do so because he wishes to, as does the wolf that hunts beside you. You have a deeper sense of yourself in the world. You believe you have a right, not to rule it, but to be part of it. Predator or prey; there is no shame to being either one.

That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That's how you do it.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.