Quotes on Integrity

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.