Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

Nandan Nilekani

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Mila Kunis

I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.

Miguel Syjuco

Love and honesty don't mix.

Marcel Proust

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Joseph Addison

Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.

Joseph Addison

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

Joseph Addison

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Jose Marti

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Jonny Lee Miller

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

Joni Mitchell

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Joni Mitchell

I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

Kevin Spacey

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

Kelley Armstrong

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Joaquin Miller

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

Jimmy Carter

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Jimmy Carter

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

The Internet removes the embarrassment factor, so people can honestly talk about what they are doing and what their risks are.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

James Patterson

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

James McGreevey

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

James Marsters

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

Novalis

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Epictetus

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Emily Bronte

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Ellen Page

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

Ellen Page

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

Elizabeth Reaser

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.