Quotes About Integrity

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

And did not Spinoza's refusing to flee from excommunication by his church and community mean the same inner battle of integrity, the same struggle for the power not to be afraid of aloneness, without which the noble Ethics, certainly one of the great works of all time, could not have been written?

A] man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

Yaln?zl?k bir ba?lamda dürüstlüktür. Dürüstlükle kendinizi genel kitleden ay?r?r, konformizmden kurtulursunuz.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

The Creative Artist and the poet and saint must fight the actual gods of our society—the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success and exploitative power.

But how can one write a book with any integrity," he wonders, "if there is no assurance of the few years time any good book takes?

Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.

the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.

Ecoute moi bien. La prochaine fois que ça t'arrive, qu'on insulte ta mère devant toi, la prochaine fois, je veux qu'on te ramène à la maison sur des brancards. Tu comprends ?

I'm a man of honor, Lili; of honor. — Yes, and the world ain't what it used to be, is it Colonel? — But I haven't changed, Lili, I refuse to change. I won't throw in the sponge.

It wasn't true, the evidence was faked, but the odd thing is that, whether it s true or not, the consequences are the same: one large group of human beings or another turned out to be triple-distilled sons-of-bitches, which proves that we all have it in us. Whether the Communists staged a diabolical lie or the Americans sowed plague in China, the one thing that matters is that, as a man, you're in the gutter, Colonel Babcock.

That might be, but that's exactly where betrayal of human values begins: when the approach to science is merely scientific.

My body had become that of an old liar, and my most spontaneous transports had begun to end in calculated maneuverings and delayed deliveries. It was no longer a question of self-esteem or pride; when I thought of breaking up with her, it was not to avoid some sort of discomfiture: it was a question of authenticity. I loved Laura too much to drag myself along on crutches in the wake of our love.

it must be admitted that on neither side have they brought honor to the cause of reason, which they have not been able to protect against the winds of violence and folly.

Basta un instante para hacer un héroe, y una vida entera para hacer un hombre.

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

On the other hand, if a renunciation is to be truly heroic, the thing renounced must admittedly be valuable.

Fidelity to the whole of revealed truth is what distinguished good theology from its counterfeits.

Are you such a coward that you would use a woman's babies against her?

Maintain a clear line of sight to the difference you are hoping to make, and hold fast to that dream as you face the costs of the rise to power.

That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.