Quote by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and…

— Flora Thompson

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“It wasn’t the rules or the potential punishment that kept people honest. It was being reminded of core values embedded from our earliest days:…

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

— Luther L. Bohanon

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to…

— Max Weber

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises

“For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the deepest depths…

— Richard Russo

“necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.”

— S. M. Stirling

“Honesty and contentment are the pathways that lead to a life of integrity and generosity.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And…

— Thomas Otway

“Common decency, good manners, kindness and hard work were treated as peculiarities”

— Ruth Hogan

“When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.”

— Ken Follett