Integrity Quotes - Page 29

• The worst criminals of our time are the US and UK governments. Both are devoid of all integrity, all honor, all mercy, all humanity. Many members of both governments would have made perfect functionaries in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Russia, Government, Perfect

  Paul Craig Roberts (2014). “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State”, p.378, Atwell Publishing

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• Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Fancy, Publicity, Moments

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• Tools have their own integrity.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Tools, Usefulness, Housework

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• The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Character, Mean

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Love Life, Caught, Contagion

  "Mirror Dance". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.

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• In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

  Freya Stark

  Truthful, Conscious, Form

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

  Denis Diderot

  Virtue, Evidence

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• The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.

  David Swing

  Heart, Greatness, People

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• My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

  Trent Reznor

  Army, Years, People

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Peace, Sacrifice, Soul

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• I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Justice, Independence, Hazards

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• Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

  Patrick Grant

  Hate, Years, Clothes

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• Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Mean, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

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• If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.

  Jared Sparks

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Jared Sparks (1855). “The Life of George Washington by Jared Sparks”, p.371

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• Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

  Samuel Johnson

  Parent, Liberty, Ease

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.164

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• If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.

  Pope Martin I

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Women, Matter

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• We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric.

  Tom Atlee

  Fabric Of Life, Design, Community

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• When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

  Mary Whipple

  Motivational, Dream, Sacrifice

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• George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.

  Al Gore

  Country, Humility, Eye

  Address at New York University, May 25, 2004.

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• I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

  Matthew Davis

  Thinking, Hollywood, Fans

  "Matthew Davis Talks CULT, Transitioning from THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, Character Relationships, Hidden Clues to the Mysteries in Each Episode & Social Media". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 19, 2013.

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• Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Decision, Able, Moral

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• You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.

  Robyn

  Pride, Risk, Matter

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• I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Cute, Husband, Sick

  "Michelle Pfeiffer Talks Her Younger And Younger Leading Men", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Holiday, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.243, Xist Publishing

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