Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Alan Watts

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

Alan Greenspan

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Alan Greenspan

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

Alan Bullock

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

Alan Autry

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

Chris Cannon

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chloe Sevigny

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Bart Gordon

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Bill Hybels

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

Ed Pastor

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Daphne Koller

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Duncan Sheik

I privilege the music over the lyrics

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Kevin Chambers

There is no process for regular review of local issuing authorities. If someone just stops performing that duty, we'd have no way of knowing that.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Annette Lu

It is the duty of all local officials to stay as prepared as possible for the typhoon,

Geoffrey Fieger

This lawsuit is about duty, this lawsuit is about accountability, this lawsuit is about responsibility.

Oscar Wilde

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Romeo Capulong

The moment a party loses trust in them, then it's their duty to self-inhibit.

Howard Dean

The Senate has a duty to fully and fairly judge Roberts' record and qualifications, but how can it possibly do that when the White House has been sloppy or just plain uncooperative in providing information?