Paul Park Quotes

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

This world is always working against a sense of honor, cleanliness, integrity.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Most of us [members of Congress] are honest at all times, and all of us are honest most of the time.

Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.

The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.