While “lack of integrity” is often used as a phrase of scolding or condemnation, I often mean it in a purely descriptive sense: a wholeness is not present, which results in a lack of structural integrity of a person, their emotions, or their habit.
“I chose as the opening lecture this address on realizable ideals, because the longer I have lived the more strongly I have felt the harm done by the practice among so many men of keeping their consciences in separate compartments; sometimes a Sunday conscience and a weekday conscience; sometimes a conscience as to what they say or what they like other people to say, and another conscience as to what they do and like other people to do; sometimes a conscience for their private affairs and a totally different conscience for their business relations. Or again, there may be one compartment in which the man keeps his conscience not only for his domestic affairs but for his business affairs and a totally different compartment in which he keeps his conscience when he deals with public men and public measures.”
It’s from the first of a series of lectures given by TR in Berkeley, CA in 1911. The first address, and the collection in which they were published, is titled “Realizable Ideals.”
“I chose as the opening lecture this address on realizable ideals, because the longer I have lived the more strongly I have felt the harm done by the practice among so many men of keeping their consciences in separate compartments; sometimes a Sunday conscience and a weekday conscience; sometimes a conscience as to what they say or what they like other people to say, and another conscience as to what they do and like other people to do; sometimes a conscience for their private affairs and a totally different conscience for their business relations. Or again, there may be one compartment in which the man keeps his conscience not only for his domestic affairs but for his business affairs and a totally different compartment in which he keeps his conscience when he deals with public men and public measures.”
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It’s from the first of a series of lectures given by TR in Berkeley, CA in 1911. The first address, and the collection in which they were published, is titled “Realizable Ideals.”
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Realizable_Ideals/pcf5o9XE4LQC?hl=en