Quotes About Integrity

The only antidote to being duped is a thorough knowledge of and passion for Truth.

Betti wrote on philosophy, theology, and law, and many regard him as third in importance behind Gadamer and Ricoeur in twentieth-century hermeneutics. He argues that hermeneutics fosters "open-mindedness" and "receptiveness" to such an extent that the subject should be obligatory in all universities. It nurtures tolerance, mutual respect, and reciprocal listening one to another with patience and integrity.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

So, of course, the visions are painted in the colours of the rainbow, and the reality is sketched in duller tones of black and white and grey. But I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That is your call. But believe one thing, if nothing else. I did what I thought was right for our country.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

Thomas Aquinas puts it nicely when he says, "Every time someone sins, they're sinning under the guise of good.

You know, a good is never so good as when you have no awareness that you're doing good. You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you're good.

Bob Neuwirth: In his depravity, Lou was dignified. Dignified depravity.

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then.

But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.

Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing. The locksmith reties the stone inside the bag and slips it back into his rucksack.

There are many people in this world," Himerius says, "who do not care to what purposes their engines are put. So long as they are paid.

Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.

Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing.

Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.

It was not," says Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, "very easy to be good then.

Werner is succeeding. He is being loyal. He is being what everybody agrees is good. And yet every time he wakes and buttons his tunic, he feels he is betraying something.

To put the matter bluntly, no sense at all can be made of the virtue of purity if sodomy is countenanced or even celebrated. That is because the virtue is founded in reality, and the vice depends upon denying the reality.

Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;

The early Christians saw the connections quite clearly, which is why they set themselves apart from the licentiousness. They did not frequent houses of prostitution, they did not divorce, they did not kill their babies, and they did not engage in sexual perversion.