honesty Quotes

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.