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Quotes About Integrity

Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.
~ Frank Herbert
Sir, I honor and respect the personal dignity of any man who respects my dignity.
~ Frank Herbert
Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?
~ Frank Herbert
Anyone can be a Truthsayer, even you," The Preacher said. "It's a matter of self-honesty about the nature of your own feelings. It requires that you have an inner agreement with truth which allows ready recognition.
~ Frank Herbert
In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.
~ Frank Herbert
Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known.
~ Frank Herbert
Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation?
~ Frank Herbert
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
~ Frank Herbert
This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.
~ Frank Herbert
When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations.
~ Frank Herbert
I choose to ally myself against any force which brings humiliation upon humankind.
~ Frank Herbert
The man without emotions is the one to fear.
~ Frank Herbert
Is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly?
~ Frank Herbert
Zaten vereceÄŸim ÅŸeyleri çalmak m? istiyorsun?
~ Frank Herbert
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.
~ Frank Herbert
Y la lealtad es un valioso lujo. Se puede vender, pero no comprar. —
~ Frank Herbert
Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?
~ Frank Herbert
Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?
~ Frank Herbert
Che cosa disprezzi? È da questo che ti si conosce veramente.
~ Frank Herbert
Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
~ Frank Herbert
You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract people who can be corrupted. That is a more descriptive observation than to say simply that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
~ Frank Herbert
a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.
~ Frank Herbert
Thou shalt not disfigure the soul. - The Orange Catholic Bible
~ Frank Herbert
must never submit to animals.
~ Frank Herbert