"And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."
A big theme in the book is integrity. Howard's got it, and the other major characters lack it in varying degrees.
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