Word: dishonestly
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...responsibility of which I share, such a method cannot be permanent, and indeed cannot be used at all without danger to the very foundation of sportsmanship. Ultimately the information received by the Committee depends in most cases on the player's word. There is no questionnaire that a dishonest man cannot circumvent; and the man who wavers between honesty and dishonesty disposes with an easy conscience of questions that he regards as nobody's business but his own. A third man, high-spirited and honorable, resents what he naturally construes as a slur on his good name. Though he will...
...will deny that New York is probably the most honest city in the world. Its mayor says so; so does the police commissioner; and now the Interborough Rapid Transit has revealed through the assistant to its president even more significant proof. In marked contrast to the dishonest Western cities, New York uses only fifty thousand slugs, checks and hammered pennies a month for complimentary subway rides...
There is more good in the world than bad. There are more good men and women than bad. Where there are a few men in public office who are faithless and dishonest, there is a mighty army of high-minded sincere and devoted men who without flare of trumpets are resolutely doing the day's work. The immense number of young men and women who seek admission to our institutions of higher learning bear testimony to the love of their parents who desire to give their children opportunities which they did not enjoy. The countless gifts to colleges, to hospitals...
...rule, but not always. A man who is honest solely because it is the best business policy is honest only from a broad perception of his own material interest, not from any moral principle. If placed in a position where a dishonest act would yield a profit and could never be discovered, or do him any worldly harm, he would have no reason, drawn from the best policy principle, to shun the dishonest act. That is if he had no sense of an inherent moral motive for being honest...
...students." Every Jew in the University that I know is thoroughly ashamed of the man or men who in the first place gave out these statements, shamelessly slandering the University and four of its most respected officers, and then took refuge in anonymity. The act was in every way dishonest, cowardly, and despicable...