Integrity Quotes
1780 quotes by 1132 authors
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's…
— Ralph Chaplin
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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their…
— William Bourke Cockran
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The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man…
— John Dewey
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
— Henry George
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My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism…
— Kurt Cobain
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It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
— J C Watts
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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
— Thomas Malthus
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Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart,…
— Pope Francis
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It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney.…
— Rajneesh
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What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And…
— Eugene Gendlin
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After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.
— Frank Bruni
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How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become…
— Kenneth Tynan
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others,…
— Walt Whitman
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange…
— Walter Benjamin
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