Integrity Quotes - Page 20

• The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Opinion

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.125

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• Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.

  Fred Allen

  Stars, Honesty, Race

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• I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Benches, Individual

  Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985”, p.1270, Best Books on

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• For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.

  Reza Aslan

  Dream, Talking, Library

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There seems to be a notion in Hollywood that if you want to make money, you have to sacrifice doing good work with integrity. And I think that's bullshit. I think that's an excuse, and it's what people say who are scared that they can't do good work.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

  Albert Camus

  Law, Justice, Corruption

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• [A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity. Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous--tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Special, May, Spheres

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.619, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Intellectual, Add, Cost

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Fate, Discovery

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

  Jacques Barzun

  Passion, Artist, Boys

  Jacques Barzun's preface to the 3rd edition of his book "Berlioz and the Romantic Century", 1969.

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• Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

  Germaine Greer

  Survival, Principles, Paper

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.15, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

  Solon

  Men, Evil, Good Man

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• Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

  Stephen Covey

  Space, Choices, Quality

  "First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy". Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.

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• Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Analysis, Lasts

  "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness‎". Book by Stephen Covey, November 2004.

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• Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

  Dan Quayle

  Responsibility, Hard Work, Policy

  Speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, May 19, 1992.

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• The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.

  Wendell Phillips

  Party, Men, Down And

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 352, 1895.

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• Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

  Lord Acton

  Religious, Philosophical, Judging

  "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

  Chinua Achebe

  Struggle, Ordinary, Language

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.169, Penguin

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• The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  C. P. Scott

  Truth, Media, Giving

  'Manchester Guardian' 5 May 1921

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• Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process.

  Daniel Levitin

  Sea, Brain, Levels

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.

  Jamie Sives

  Lying, Talking, Bats

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• China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Military, Sake, China

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• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

  Richard P. Feynman

  Honesty, Real, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Blessing, May, Path

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.41, Рипол Классик

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• Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Self, Oneness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.33, Open Road Media

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