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"Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be."
"A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident."
"Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company."
"The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16)."
"Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth."
"When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing."
"Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly."
"Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others."
"Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means."
"One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth."
"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."
"When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them."
"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."
"There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction."
"You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads."
"Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence."
"I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it."
"Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim."
"As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others."
"I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts."
