Keeping One’s Given Word

Personal and national honor or integrity is a cardinal virtue in the Hungarian moral spectrum. Keeping one’s given word is an obligation overriding most other considerations, including political expediency. This is why the Hungarians never changed sides during international conflicts, however advantageous it may have been to do so.

- by ZOLTÁN BODOLAI Dip.Ed., Ph.D. (Budapest)
tutor of hungarian History and Culture, University of Sidney