(born November 18, 1957).
American politician, clergyman, and former football player. Watts played as a quarterback in college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and later played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 as a Republican, representing Oklahoma’s 4th congressional district.
Image: Peter van Geest AI. Meaning 🧠 🧭:Integrity = doing the right thing without supervision: when no one sees you; if you don’t get credit for it; if you could get away with it. The follow-up sentences make it extra sharp: he criticizes a culture in which people think: “the only right thing is to get away with it”, “the only wrong thing is to get caught” ⚖️, he sets a moral standard in return: acting rightly, even without external control. 🧬 Origin: idea vs. formulation 🏛️: 1) The idea is much older. The idea of “doing good without anyone watching” is classic in moral philosophy and religious ethics (virtue, duty, sincerity). 2) The wording in this quote is easy to date. The specific sentence described here was demonstrably spoken by J.C. Watts (1996) via the CNN transcript. ✅👤 Author🎙️: Speaker/author: J.C. Watts Jr. (then: U.S. Representative, Oklahoma). Where: Republican National Convention, San Diego. When: August 13, 1996.Source type: primary (speech transcript) ✅. 🔁 Relationship with the well-known “integrity” quote (EN & NL) 🔎 Much shared variant (English): “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” 📌: Watts talks about character, not literally about integrity. The “integrity” sentence is essentially a paraphrase/variant that later became extremely popular (trainings, posters, internet). This variant is often given to C.S. Lewis, among others, but this is often source-uncertain (often without a verifiable primary location). ⚠️ Watts (1996) is therefore the best hard source for this idea in exactly this style.
Door Pieter
Mensenmens, zoon, echtgenoot, vader, opa.
Spiritueel, echter niet religieus.
Ik hou van golf, wandelen, lezen en de natuur in veel opzichten.
Onderzoeker, nieuwsgierig, geen fan van de mainstream media (MSM).
