Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
When it becomes serious, you have to lie.
Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
