Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so,… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line:… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. — William of Conches Copy Share Image
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity. — Mazo de la Roche Copy Share Image
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and… — Bertie Ahern Copy Share Image
Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline — Vinod Rai Copy Share Image
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
