You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set such men o...ver them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you, but decide every minor case themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the et...ernal homes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in deal...ing with their own generation than are the children of light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
what evil is: not as we thought Deeds that must be punished, but our lack of faith,... Our dishonest mood of denial, The concupiscence of the oppressor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to comm...and their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue ...is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognised that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self- government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »