Misconduct Quotes

• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Men

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• But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

  Susan Estrich

  Running, Tuesday, Waiting

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• Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Study, Shame

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• We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lines, Wealth, Draws

  Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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• The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

  Bill James

  Justice, Police, Faults

  "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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• All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Firsts, Evolution, Programming

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3198, e-artnow

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• Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

  Hermann Adler

  Absence, Source, Strife

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 933, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

  Ben Goldacre

  Ideas, Blind Spots, Medicine

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• A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

  Aesop

  Men, Bitterness, Consciousness

  Edward J. Detmold, Aesop (2014). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.

  Cory Doctorow

  Rooms, Return, Ethics

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• Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

  Adam Smith

  Political, Politics, Sometimes

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.282, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Sports, Government, Law

  "The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort - the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal". Book by Alan Dershowitz, 1982.

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• It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct

  Mother Teresa

  Stupid, Scary, Ignorant

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• Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

  Narendra Modi

  People, Politics, India

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• [Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Abuse, Violation

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• If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.

  Chanakya

  Winning, People, Political

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• It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Years, People

  Edmund Burke (1756). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies”, p.311

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• Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Hands, Effort

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• Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Art, War, Princess

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• The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

  Nassau William Senior

  Punishment, Poverty, May

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• The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Passion, Men

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• An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level with their neighbors, is most likely to prevent usurpation and tyranny ... If rulers know that they shall in short period of time, be again out of power, and ... may be liable to be called to account for misconduct, it will guard them against maladministration.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Years, Choices, Political

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• Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.

  Confucius

  Country, Father, Son

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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