integrity

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Real integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.  (source) Oprah Winfrey

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.  (source) Samuel Johnson

"Integrity," she said next. "Jonas has, like all of us, committed minor transgressions."  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

If I was going to toy with him and challenge his loyalty, then he'd toy with me, test my integrity.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

But ON THE OTHER SIDE, the social bond itself is nothing but the mutual reflection of these self-secure integrities.†  (source) George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946

One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads—for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an inner light by which to judge of the novelist's integrity or disintegrity.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1928

That same integrity locks him firmly on the Admiral's side, and so Connor holds up his mug.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

I copied the text, not including Caravaggio's full name because, in a selective display of integrity, I decided that would be cheating.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system— that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

I started yelling even more about personal integrity and how I refused to sell my soul...  (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

From here on the Dark Daughters and Sons will be a group filled with integrity and purpose, and...  (source) P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast, Betrayed, 2007

Harriet had built her business from the ground up, starting straight out of art school, and the process had been difficult, involving struggle, the occasional compromise of artistic integrity, and a near brush with bankruptcy.  (source) Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key, 2008

My ambition and integrity were nothing to them  (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

The aircraft lost structural integrity.

"If I remember," Malcolm said, "I predicted fence integrity would fail."  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Sure, it may never come along, but at least they can rest easily in the grave knowing that they've done their little part to preserve the integrity of the Wish as an idea.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

The frost feathers holding me up, it became apparent, were maybe five inches thick and had the structural integrity of stale corn bread.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Archivists rate documents one through ten for their structural integrity.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

I'd remember to protect the integrity of my stillsuit.  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

Disinfect the area and maintain integrity.  (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010

I have as much interest in the maintenance of …. the integrity of the nation as any other man…. This is the first test of a modern free government in the act of sustaining itself against internal enemys . . .  (source) James M. McPherson, What They Fought For - 1861-1865, 1994

But this would violate the principle, followed on all sides though never formulated, of cultural integrity. If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components  (source) William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, 1930

The integrity of your search is compromised.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

…bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs…. all things/cells/beings are impermanent….  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

It looked as if one of the plates to one side had lost integrity for some reason and then proceeded to, yes, eat the rest of the assembly.  (source) John Ringo, Live Free or Die, 2010