“We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.” IfsMenMatterGovernmentTruthHonestHonestyCapacityAbsolutesEndureCreditBrilliantVotingRepublicEfficientPublic LifePrerequisites Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.” WantKindArtHardLiteratureHonestProduceDecidedAbsolutesPressureFollowingI RealizedIdeologyTrendsIdeologicalAbsolute Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.” MenShouldChildrenImportantEnoughStrongGoalHonestBuildingConsciousAbsolutesStriveArguingEnjoymentAttachmentSpontaneous Author:John Carroll
“There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldSeemsOrderImagineHonestProveDegreesAbsolutesAccomplishmentReservesDeference Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.” ChildrenOrderStrongPleasureResponsibilityMoralTeachingHonestDecidedAbsolutesFacilityImpartScholastics Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.” ModernHonestHonestyMarkAbsolutes Author:J. G. Ballard
“This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.” AmericaWealthEconomicHonestStudentsResourcesAbsolutesMajorityNotesPopulationTinyMinoritiesRepublicHistoricPrevailingEconomic SystemsAberrationFeudalism Author:Howard Nemerov
“The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.” FictionHonestAbsolutesAimHonest Truth Author:Anton Chekhov
“There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.” ThinkingWayTryingFactsHonestAbsolutesBeing TrueBeing Honest Author:Craig Finn