What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined or another.



Harold Kushner

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.



Gertrude Stein

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.



Marianne Williamson

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.


Mohandas K. Gandhi

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.


Scott Adams

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.



Chinese proverb

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.



Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other person's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.



Clarence Darrow

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability, there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.


M. Scott Peck

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

All things have two handles: Beware of the wrong one.



Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.



Izaak Walton

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties - but right through every human heart.



Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.



Alan Simpson

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.



Buddha

Who closes their ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of their own views.



William Congreve

A person who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for themself.



Chinua Achebe

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.



Chinua Achebe

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.



Francis Bacon

Integrity is telling myself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people.



Spencer Johnson

From Micah, Chapter 6

6 With what whall I come before the LORD
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves of a year old?

7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has shown you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To do justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.


Aristotle

Change alone is unchanging.

The same road goes both up and down.

The beginning of a circle is also its end.

Not I, but the world says it: all is one.

And yet everything comes in season.




Heraklietos of Ephesos

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.