Quotes About Integrity

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

The man corrected him. Honor, he said firmly. I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

Marlene had admitted in class that her boyfriend, a ninth-grader in another town, shoplifted all the time and that although she didn't like it much, she wouldn't dream of reporting him.

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him... he paused again, and then continued almost shyly, that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you. That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion. Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself... Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

integrity is a disease, and you can only catch it from someone who has it.

Miles leaned forward and spoke earnestly into the secure holovid recorder. I just want you to know, Gregor, that if the planet melts down over all this, it wasn't my fault. The trip-wire was laid long before I stumbled across it.

He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant -- that the consequences would very soon get beyond me.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same....There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

Save me from the virtuous.

You may have slandered an honest man. Or you may have struck a blow for justice. I don't know. The point is... neither do you.

One gives you the shirt off his back, mused Des, and the other offers to help you bury bodies. I do believe you have made some new friends, Pen!

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