Integrity, Honesty and Virtue Quotes

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Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based upon values rather than personal gain.
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“The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.” - Daniel Berrigan
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“These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.” Samuel Johnson
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“The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.” William Hazlitt
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“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, ‘...we shouldn’t have done that.’” Desmond Tutu
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“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” Frederick Douglass - [Frederick Baily] (1818- 1895), Escaped slave, abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
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“Man’s character is his fate.” Heraclitus - (c.540-480 BC) Greek philosopher
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“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.” Clarence Darrow
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“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” Sophocles
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“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.” Edward R. Murrow
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“Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.” Aristotle
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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain
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“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.” Albert Einstein
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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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“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edmund Burke
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“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.” Thomas Jefferson
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“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.” Robert Ingersoll
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“Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson:
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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” James Baldwin Biography, fiction writer, essayist, social critic, (1924-1987)
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“Don’t ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them.” (also cited as: “I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”) Booker T. Washington
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“The soul of our country needs to be awakened…When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.” Veterans Fast for Life

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