Quotes About Integrity

Better well hanged than ill wed.

Solo hay un camino para asegurarse nunca ser engañado, y ese es el de creerlo todo amorosamente.

Mi tarea consiste en poner freno a una difusión mentirosa del Cristianismo y en ayudarle al Cristianismo a sacudirse de una masa de Cristianos nominales.

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

None has more contempt for what it is to be a man than they who make it their profession to lead the crowd.

But take heed to pay them willingly and promptly what money they should have. With those whom one despises, one on no account should have money differences, lest it might perhaps be said that it was to get out of paying them one avoided them. No, pay them double, in order that thy disagreement with them may be thoroughly clear: that what concerns them does not concern thee at all, namely, money; and on the contrary, that what does not concern them concerns thee infinitely, namely, Christianity.

Neither can one who wills the Good do so out of fear of punishment. In essence, this is the same thing as willing the Good for the sake of a reward.

In the nature of things a priesthood is always demoralizing.

An author doesn't have the moral right to violate truth and take refuge in the claim that he/she is only a creative artist.

Like its elder sibling love, friendship was a set of obligations willingly assumed, truth and trust among them, not just a pleasure or a feeling. At least it was if you were to be a friend worth having.

How have I survived uncorrupted this long, surrounded by oil-tongued flatterers like you

Be as you wish to seem, an ancient had said. It was good advice. Because acting brave and being so are very much the same thing.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

A little bird whispers in my ear: Be fair! Nobody, no country, has a monopoly of untruth.

Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.

Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.

Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what and when over how and why.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it. Outside The Whale ( Granta , 1984)

Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love.

Sonunda blöfünün görülmesini istemiyorsan asla ultimatom verme

The crux of a great person's life is the choice between doing what is right and what he wants to do. Abraham Lincoln, who was a proficient wrestler and enjoyed a good bout, probably would have preferred spending his time on the mat to starting a war in which approximately two per cent of the population died

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their true characters were shown not in the war they fought but in the peace they made.

If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.