Quotes About Honesty

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.

We have good history in Virginia... and we have history that's not good and I don't think we can shy away from any of it. We must tell it all, we must put it in perspective.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.

I'm not a virtue signaler.

If you are a politician who styles yourself as a model of family virtue but are having a secret affair, you have no right to expect it to remain secret.

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

Money and virtue must always be combined.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I'm really tired of virtue.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.