I haven't written on The Alopecian Muse in quite sometime and I have been researching for my next article. I am still a little scattered these days at home, so commiting to writing the article is a slow process. Anyway, when I get around to writing it, it will be on subject of "Integrity"...I loved all the quotes that I found so far, so I thought I'd post them. They were really cool and inspired me to reflect upon what it means to live with Integrity:

 A president's task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
- Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States

 Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?
- Akhenaton, (c. B.C. 1375), Pharaoh of Egypt

 Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, Alsatian humanitarian, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate

No man is wise enough or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
- John Adams, 1735-1826, Second President of the United States

 They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
- Plato, c 427-347 BCE, Greek philosopher

 If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Born 1949, American author of science fiction and fantasy works

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
- Horace Mann, 1796-1859, American educational reformer

 If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
- Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1900-1980, American actress and politician

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
- Elmer G. Leterman, 1897-1982, American businessman and author

People who know how to employ themselves always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.
- Jeanne-Marie Roland de la Platière, 1754-1793, French Revolutionary

 A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
- Manly Hall, 1901-1990, Canadian writer and mystic

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
- Blaise Pascal, 1623-1666, French philosopher and mathematician,
working in his office.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869-1948, Political and spiritual leader of India

We ought not raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy. It is more pleasing to see smoke brighting into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
- Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English lexicographer, essayist, poet

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher

 You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
- Oliver Goldsmith, 1730 or 1728 - 1774, Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
      - John Locke, 1632-1704, English, Oxford scholar, medical researcher and
physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a
revolutionary movement, and philosopher

 That man is truly good who knows his own dark places.
- Beowulf

 What we think or what we believe is of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
- John Ruskin, 1819-1900, British Writer, art critic, social reformer

Even a lie is a psychic fact.
- Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swedish psychologist, psychiatrist

 Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer

 I want to go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and do it frankly and without evasion.
- George C. Marshall, 1880-1956, American general, statesman