Integrity, Honesty, Character and Virtue Quotes
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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest" Thomas Paine
Integrity has no need of rules. Albert Camus
"You are only what you are when no one is looking." Robert C. Edwards
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust": Samuel Johnson
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“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally Kempton
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“In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.” Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962
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“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775
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“I’m convinced that if we are to get on the right side for the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.” Martin Luther King Jr.
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“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.” Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist, statesman, and author, The Law, 1850
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“If you had only known the man you were trying to kill, you would have risked your life to save his.” Harry Pope, WW2, Pacific USS LSM 41, 1944 - Occupied Japan, 1950
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“Write on my gravestone: ‘Infidel, Traitor.’—infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.” Wendell Phillips
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Live so the Preacher Won't Have to Lie At Your Funeral
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 Irish Cleric, Essayest, Author, Satarist
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"When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to suscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe; he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."~Thomas Paine "The Age of Reason" 1793
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world´s stimation. -- Susan B. Anthony, reformer and suffragist - (1820-1906)
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Character is what one is; reputation is what one is thought to be by others
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"The measure of a man's character can be gauged by how he handles success and power. While there are trials peculiar to adversity, there are temptations perilous in prosperity. Some amount of failure and adversity is the lot of every man.... How a man uses his position of influence says as much, if not more, about his character, than how he responds to struggles and setbacks. If he overcomes the trials of adversity he must face the even greater trials of success. ... We confuse the shadow for the substance when we imagine that fame and power are traits of a great leader. Fame has been given to fools, and power to tyrants. Rather, the real test of greatness is not whether a man possesses fame or power, but how he employs them." David J. Vaughn, Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination.": - Rev. William H. Poole
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