Quotes about Integrity
Wheeler served them as their defender against the law itself, before which they were ciphers, and so felt themselves—and he could do this only as their friend.
— Wendell Berry
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.
— William Faulkner
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
— William Faulkner
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
— William Faulkner
I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
— William Faulkner
Because there just aint nothing justifies the deliberate destruction of what a man has built with his own sweat and stored the fruit of his sweat into.
— William Faulkner
Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.
— William Faulkner
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
— William Faulkner
We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
— William Goldman
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
— William James