Quotes About Honesty

La integridad es la habilidad de ser fiel a una idea

you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.

people who listen and don't give a damn, but sit there in order to tell their friends that they have attended a lecture by a famous name. All second-handers.

An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He

You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge.

Si las acciones propias son honradas, uno no necesita la confianza de los demás, basta con la percepción racional de los otros. La persona que anhela un cheque moral en blanco de semejante género, lleva intenciones deshonestas, aunque no las exprese.

Observe also that an honest theoretician does not try to present his ideas in the guise of their opposites. But Kant's philosophy is presented as "pure reason"—altruism is presented as a doctrine of "love"—communism is presented as "liberation"—and egalitarianism is presented as "justice.

And that, in effect, is what he is actually doing; consciously or subconsciously, intentionally or inadvertently, when a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites," he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

Simpler, Peter, simpler, more direct, as honest as you can make of a dishonest thing.

How can one deal in truth when one deals with the public? I don't understand you, she said very quietly. Questions of truth do not enter into social issues. No principles have ever had any effect on society. What, then, directs men's actions? He shrugged. The expediency of the moment

she thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of a revulsion against that code, suddenly seeing its full ugliness for the first time

each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there was so much suffering and ugliness in the world. They had not tried to find the answer and they had gone on living as if no answer were necessary. But each had known a moment when, in lonely, naked honesty, he had felt the need of an answer.

He never seeks or desires the unearned.

La libertad que buscas es libertad del hecho de que si tu riqueza la hiciste robando, eres un ladrón, no importa cuánto dones a la caridad o cuántas plegarias recites;

When you see that in order to produce, you need to ask permission from men who produce nothing - When you see the money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957

lo correcto siempre funciona y siempre triunfa.

It is not my function," said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public. I give them what they really like.

Quien le miente al mundo es esclavo del mundo a partir de ese momento.

An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He says: 'It is, therefore I want'. They say: 'I want it, therefore it is.

Honest people are never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.