“Behaviour is the mirror in which everyone shows their image” – Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (1749-1832).
Where Is Our Government’s Moral Compass?
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret’”
– Ambrose Bierce, influential journalist and author (1842 – 1914)
In the words of Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), has been called “arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history”:
“The True Measure Of A Man Is How He Treats Someone Who Can Do Him Absolutely No Good.”
“Sir, when men of action meet, the place of the man of letters is inside his pencase”. Hassan, James Elroy Flecker (p60,1922)
I shall start with a quotation from Carl Von Clausewitz ‘On War’ in which he defines war as: ‘an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will’ (Book I,i,2).
Sun Tzu said: ‘The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting’.
Scruples 1: How do I say ‘no’ to my boss asking me to do something, I know is not right? You are fresh out of university. The boss asks you to backdate a signature which you know to be fraudulent and it will cause your employer a financial gain, but will destroy another business. What should you do? What will you do?
Blackmail And Sextortion “…Do You Feel A Creeping, Shrinking, Sensation, Watson, When You Stand Before The Serpents In The Zoo, And See The Slithery, Gliding, Venomous Creatures, With Their Deadly Eyes And Wicked Flattened Faces?…He Is The King Of All Blackmailers. Heaven Help The Man, And Still More The Woman, Whose Secret And Reputation Comes
