Word: dishonestly
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...just, then inevitable, or if not inevitable, then at least much the lesser of two great evils (and this ought to include every man who cannot honestly say that the outcome of the war in Europe is a matter of no importance or concern to him, because a dishonest neutrality is morally more reprehensible than war) in such men the desire to serve the nation devotedly and intelligently is very great. It is to the latter then, but not to those who harbor any sentimental illusions about the thing called war, that the following information is commended...
...borrowers" do not call themselves dishonest. Many of them are quite reputable young men, slightly lacking in brain, perhaps, but accredited with honesty for all that. All of them would be bitterly offended if named by an ugly and descriptive term. And yet their actions are neither more nor less than thievery. When a man takes a book from--the Library shelves under cover of his coat, or in his bag, he is robbing every other man who may wish to read that book...
...Putnam further declared that opinions must be expressed throughout the country, since otherwise the President and Congress could not know how the people, whose government they represent, felt. "The President has shown undue patience" in the recent war crises. Money has been distributed broadcast with dishonest intentions of blowing up government property, of destroying munition factories, in short, "a hot-bed of treacherous actions have been going on as ordered by enemies to the nation...
...always be perfectly obvious; and it may not always be perfectly easy to do one's duty; but difficulties far more serious arise in the manager's relations with other people. Take such matters as injurious trades, unhealthy tenements, unfair competition with rivals, oppressive treatment of employees, dishonest products, disregard of the public safety or comfort, dealing with public authorities which, even if not corrupt, are unconscionable. It is in questions of this kind that the evils of absentee-ownership are felt today. The investor does not inquire into them, or trouble himself about them. The stock is paying large...
...paradox, but it is not. The temptation to be selfish for one's own profit is stronger, but for a good man it is easier to resist, than the temptation to be selfish in acting for the benefit of others. I am not speaking to bad men, to dishonest men, or men of hard selfishness; but to honest, upright and large-hearted men, who mean to do their duty in their day and generation. To such a man life consists not in the multitude of things that he possesses, but in the use that he makes of them...