Quotes About Integrity

Hur ska man förhålla sig till människor som knappast är något annat än utropstecken på två ben? Hur ska man stoppa dem som inte skyr några medel?

Jag skulle aldrig slåss för ett extra sovrum åt nationen. Jag skulle aldrig slåss för heliga platser eller heliga sevärdheter. Jag skulle aldrig slåss för så kallade nationella intressen. Men jag skulle slåss för liv och frihet och ingenting annat, slåss av bara helvete.

Really," "really and truly," those code words which barely conceal a lie.)

Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

Wenn Du deine Weisheiten aus einem einzigen Buch klaust, bist Du ein Plagiator. Aber wenn Du aus zehn Büchern klaust, nennt man Dich einen Gelehrten, wenn Du aus dreißig oder vierzig Büchern klaust - einen hervorragenden Gelehrten

try not to sleep with our sister's husbands

Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

But then again a good person doesn't cheat, doesn't fuck around for sport. Good and bad, though, aren't mutually exclusive are they? At least she didn't, Laney rationalizes, at least she didn't pretend that what she had with John, with any of the men, was more than it was. Didn't fool herself into thinking she had any jurisdiction over their freedom. That the fucking had anything to do with

The things that truly define me can't be lost.

She had a way of bringing out genuineness in the least genuine of people.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.

Nankingis on lumi nagu kõrge ametnik - ei käi liiga tihti, ei jää liiga kaukas

And I'd let him- not because I weakened and wanted sex, but because it would have been spiteful, beyond redemption, not to allow us this hope.

When what you have is more than enough, you're on the edge of impeccability.

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

Passion gives me moments of wholeness

A man is what he does every day," said Emerson.

Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much takes place within me each day that by comparison I find a paucity, a stinginess, a silence in people which drives me to excess.

Also, I entreat you: do not show your work in progress to any outsider. I mean Bradley or Kahane, or anyone who is not working with you, following your thought, entering into it. It is confusing. These men are not your co-workers or even friends. These men are outsiders. Keep to yourself. You need a deep cohesion, a strong forward continuity. Admit no opinions until you are through.

I want the key, the key to the lies." "Passion and violence never opened a human being." "What opens human beings?" "Compassion.

I have no longer the strength to act what I do not feel.

You are an "homme complet" That is why he is so intolerant of neurotic art and artists.